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Born May 19, 1914 • Vienna • Austria
Died February 6, 2002 (aged 87) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1979) • Nobel Prize (1962)
Subjects Of Study X-ray diffraction • hemoglobin

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Sanger, Frederick
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Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
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Ernest Rutherford
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Robert Huber
German biochemist
Johann Deisenhofer
German American biochemist
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist
Lindahl, Tomas
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
Gregory P. Winter
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Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
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Sir Harold W. Kroto
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Sir John Cornforth
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Aaron Klug
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