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Born July 18, 1948 (age 78) • Ludwigsburg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1988)
Subjects Of Study X-ray diffraction • bacteria • crystallization • photosynthesis • reaction centre
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German biochemist
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Johann Deisenhofer
German American biochemist
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
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George P. Smith
American biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
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John Howard Northrop
American biochemist
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James Batcheller Sumner
American biochemist
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Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
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Hans Fischer
German biochemist
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Richard Kuhn
German scientist
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Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Swedish biochemist
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Eduard Buchner
German biochemist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
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