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Born March 6, 1892 • Barnard Castle • England
Died July 13, 1981 (aged 89) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study hormone • vitamin
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
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Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Brunton, Sir Thomas Lauder, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet
British physician
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Mary Cartwright, 1947
Mary Cartwright
British mathematician
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
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William Donald Hamilton
British naturalist and population geneticist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
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Richard Henderson
British biologist
Hertha Marks Ayrton.
Hertha Marks Ayrton
British physicist
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
German-born English engineer and inventor