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Born August 23, 1940 • Milwaukee • Wisconsin
Died October 9, 2018 (aged 78) • Branford • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2009)
Subjects Of Study RNA • endoplasmic reticulum • protein • recombination • ribosome • transcription • translation
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Roger D. Kornberg
American chemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian-American scientist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
William H. Stein
American biochemist
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
Stanford Moore
American biochemist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
Tiselius, oil painting by William Fleetwood, 1965; in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Swed.
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist

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