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Born September 2, 1877 • England
Died September 22, 1956 (aged 79) • Brighton • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1921)
Subjects Of Study chemical element • displacement law • isotope • radioactivity

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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist and chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Sir Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Theodore William Richards
American chemist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
John Walker
British chemist
Herbert Charles Brown
American chemist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist

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