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Also Known As Konrad Emil Bloch
Born January 21, 1912 • Germany
Died October 15, 2000 (aged 88) • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1964)
Subjects Of Study anabolism • cholesterol • fatty acid

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English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
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Elizabeth Blackburn
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American geneticist
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Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Gerald Maurice Edelman
Gerald Maurice Edelman
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George Wells Beadle.
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American geneticist
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
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Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Schekman, Randy W.
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Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
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