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Born October 8, 1918 • Denmark
Died May 28, 2018 (aged 99) • Århus • Denmark
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study adenosine triphosphate • sodium–potassium–ATPase
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Richard Henderson
British biologist
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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
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John Walker
British chemist
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Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
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Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
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Paul D. Boyer
American biochemist
Morten P. Meldal
Morten P. Meldal
Danish chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
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Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist