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Also Known As Herbert Aaron Hauptman
Born February 14, 1917 • New York City • New York
Died October 23, 2011 (aged 94) • Buffalo • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1985)
Subjects Of Study X-ray diffraction • equation • molecule

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Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
American crystallographer
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Feringa, Bernard
Bernard Feringa
Dutch chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Sauvage, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French chemist
Robert Huber
German biochemist
Johann Deisenhofer
German American biochemist
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Paul J. Flory
American chemist

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