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Born April 21, 1889 • Moscow • Russia
Died June 18, 1971 (aged 82) • Zürich • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1937)
Subjects Of Study carotenoid • flavin • riboflavin • vitamin A
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Richard Kuhn
German scientist
Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist
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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
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Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
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Richard R. Ernst
Swiss chemist
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Leopold Ružička
Swiss chemist
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Vladimir Prelog
Swiss 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
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist

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