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Born May 9, 1947 (age 77) • Pretoria
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2013)
Subjects Of Study chemical reaction • enzyme • protein

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Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Herbert Charles Brown
American chemist
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
Frances Arnold
American chemical engineer
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
John Howard Northrop
American biochemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Shimomura, Osamu
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
British chemist

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