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Born May 21, 1934 • Halmstad • Sweden
Died July 5, 2024 (aged 90) • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1982)
Subjects Of Study prostaglandin
Sune K. Bergström
Sune K. Bergström
Swedish biochemist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Theorell
Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
Swedish biochemist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist
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
Har Gobind Khorana
American biochemist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
Albert Szent-Györgyi.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
German biochemist