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Born December 8, 1947 (age 77) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1995) • Nobel Prize (1989)
Subjects Of Study RNA • catalysis
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian-American scientist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Gilbert, Walter
Walter Gilbert
American biologist
Roger D. Kornberg
American chemist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Severo Ochoa, 1959.
Severo Ochoa
Spanish-American biochemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist
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
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
Brian K. Kobilka, 2012.
Brian K. Kobilka
American physician and biologist

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