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Born January 15, 1895 • Helsinki • Finland
Died November 11, 1973 (aged 78) • Helsinki • Finland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American biochemist
David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
Tomas Lindahl, 2015
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
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Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
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Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
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Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Modrich, Paul
Paul Modrich
American biochemist
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Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
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George P. Smith
American biochemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist