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Born May 19, 1914 • Vienna • Austria
Died February 6, 2002 (aged 87) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1979) • Nobel Prize (1962)
Subjects Of Study X-ray diffraction • hemoglobin

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Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Robert Huber
German biochemist
Johann Deisenhofer
German American biochemist
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist
Lindahl, Tomas
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
A.J.P. Martin
British biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
R.L.M. Synge
British biochemist
Sir Arthur Harden
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Sir Harold W. Kroto
British chemist
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Sir John Cornforth
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Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
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