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Born April 6, 1911 • Munich • Germany
Died August 6, 1979 (aged 68) • Munich • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1964)
Subjects Of Study cholesterol • fatty acid
Konrad E. Bloch.
Konrad E. Bloch
American biochemist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
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Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
Albert Szent-Györgyi.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist
Theorell
Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
Swedish biochemist
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Jacques Monod
French biochemist
Peter Hegemann, wearing a suit and patterned tie, smiles while holding an open award certificate in both hands.
Peter Hegemann
German biochemist and biophysicist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
German biochemist
Lipmann, 1953
Fritz Albert Lipmann
American scientist
Sir Ernst Boris Chain seated in a suit, looking toward the camera with hands clasped in his lap.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
Kossel, Albrecht
Albrecht Kossel
German biochemist
Otto Meyerhof.
Otto Meyerhof
German biochemist
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist