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Born July 19, 1945 (age 79) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2017)
Subjects Of Study chymotrypsin • electron • enzyme • protein • cryo-electron microscopy • electron microscopy
Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Robert J. Lefkowitz.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
American physician and biologist
Brian K. Kobilka, 2012.
Brian K. Kobilka
American physician and biologist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian-American scientist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Gilbert, Walter
Walter Gilbert
American biologist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
Sir Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist

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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.
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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.
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