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Born August 23, 1940 • Milwaukee • Wisconsin
Died October 9, 2018 (aged 78) • Branford • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2009)
Subjects Of Study RNA • endoplasmic reticulum • protein • recombination • ribosome • transcription • translation
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
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Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
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Roger D. Kornberg
American chemist
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Richard Henderson
British biologist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist
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Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
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George P. Smith
American biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
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William H. Stein
American biochemist
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
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Stanford Moore
American biochemist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist
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Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
Tiselius, oil painting by William Fleetwood, 1965; in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Swed.
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist

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