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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
British scientist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Hauptman, Herbert A.
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician and crystallographer
Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
Maurice Wilkins
British biophysicist
Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
American crystallographer
Hugh Esmor Huxley
British biologist
Max von Laue
German physicist
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
Robert Huber
German biochemist
Paul Peter Ewald
German physicist
Johann Deisenhofer
German American biochemist
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist