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Facts

Born August 13, 1918 • England
Died November 19, 2013 (aged 95) • Cambridge • England • (Anniversary in 6 days)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1980) • Copley Medal (1977) • Nobel Prize (1958)
Subjects Of Study DNA sequencing • insulin

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Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
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Gregory P. Winter
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Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
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Ernest Rutherford
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Tomas Lindahl, 2015
Tomas Lindahl
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
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Sir Arthur Harden
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Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
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A.J.P. Martin
British biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
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R.L.M. Synge
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Sir John Robert Vane
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Joseph Needham
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William Prout
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Richard Henderson
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
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Sir Harold W. Kroto
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