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Born January 17, 1955 (age 71) • Hungary
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2023)

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Katalin Karikó
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Albert Szent-Györgyi.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian 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
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American 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
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Gerald Maurice Edelman
Gerald Maurice Edelman
American physical chemist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
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Har Gobind Khorana
American biochemist
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Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson
Swedish biochemist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
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Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
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Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
German biochemist
Arthur Kornberg.
Arthur Kornberg
American scientist