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Born August 9, 1897 • Geneva • New York
Died November 3, 1994 (aged 97) • Tucson • Arizona
Subjects Of Study crystal • protein • virus
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Max von Laue
German physicist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
Albert Wallace Hull
American physicist
Bertram Eugene Warren
American crystallographer
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
John Desmond Bernal
Irish physicist
Paul Scherrer
Swiss physicist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
J. Willard Gibbs
J. Willard Gibbs
American scientist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
Richard E. Smalley
American chemist and physicist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Walter Kohn
American physicist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
Physics and Natural Law