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Also Known As Ferenc Herskó
Born December 31, 1937 (age 88) • Hungary
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2004)
Subjects Of Study proteasome • protein degradation • ubiquitin
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Aaron J. Ciechanover
Israeli biochemist
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Irwin Rose
American biochemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
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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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
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
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Tanaka Koichi
Japanese scientist
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John Howard Northrop
American biochemist

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