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Born March 24, 1917 • Oxford • England
Died August 23, 1997 (aged 80) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1962)
Subjects Of Study myoglobin • protein

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Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
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Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
Tiselius, oil painting by William Fleetwood, 1965; in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Swed.
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist
William H. Stein
American biochemist
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
Stanford Moore
American biochemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist
A.J.P. Martin
British biochemist
R.L.M. Synge
British biochemist
Sir Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist