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Born October 8, 1918 • Denmark
Died May 28, 2018 (aged 99) • Århus • Denmark
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study adenosine triphosphate • sodium–potassium–ATPase
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
John Walker
British chemist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
Paul D. Boyer
American biochemist
Morten P. Meldal
Morten P. Meldal
Danish chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist