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Born September 12, 1940 (age 84) • Siegen • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2017)
Subjects Of Study electron • ribosome • cryo-electron microscopy • electron microscopy
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Robert J. Lefkowitz.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
American physician and biologist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist
David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Brian K. Kobilka, 2012.
Brian K. Kobilka
American physician and biologist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Modrich, Paul
Paul Modrich
American biochemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
Irwin Rose
American biochemist
John Howard Northrop
American biochemist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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