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Born August 25, 1900 • Hildesheim • Germany
Died November 22, 1981 (aged 81) • Oxford • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1961) • Nobel Prize (1953)
Subjects Of Study tricarboxylic acid cycle • urea cycle

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German biochemist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist
Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist
Albert Szent-Györgyi.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist
Theorell
Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
Swedish biochemist
Jacques Monod
French biochemist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
German biochemist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Konrad E. Bloch.
Konrad E. Bloch
American biochemist
Lipmann, 1953
Fritz Albert Lipmann
American scientist
Kossel, Albrecht
Albrecht Kossel
German biochemist
J.J.R. Macleod, 1920
J.J.R. Macleod
Scottish physiologist
Otto Meyerhof.
Otto Meyerhof
German biochemist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist