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Born July 19, 1945 (age 81) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2017)
Subjects Of Study chymotrypsin • electron • enzyme • protein • cryo-electron microscopy • electron microscopy
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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
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Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
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Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
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Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
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George P. Smith
American biochemist
Robert J. Lefkowitz.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
American physician and biologist
Brian K. Kobilka, 2012.
Brian K. Kobilka
American physician and biologist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist
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Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Gilbert, Walter
Walter Gilbert
American biologist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
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Sir Arthur Harden
British biochemist

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