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Born July 5, 1891 • Yonkers • New York
Died May 27, 1987 (aged 95) • Arizona
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1946)
Subjects Of Study crystallization • enzyme
James Batcheller Sumner
American biochemist
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist
Euler-Chelpin
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Swedish biochemist
Sir Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Eduard Buchner
German biochemist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist
David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Modrich, Paul
Paul Modrich
American biochemist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Thomas Steitz
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Frances Arnold
American chemical engineer
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Irwin Rose
American biochemist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist