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Born August 13, 1872 • Karlsruhe • Germany
Died August 3, 1942 (aged 69) • Locarno • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study alkaloid • biochrome • chlorophyll • cocaine • enzyme • gas mask
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Hans Fischer
German biochemist
Adolf Windaus
German chemist
Euler-Chelpin
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Swedish biochemist
Eduard Buchner
German biochemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Frances Arnold
American chemical engineer
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
John Howard Northrop
American biochemist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Richard F. Heck, 2010.
Richard F. Heck
American chemist
George A. Olah, 2009.
George A. Olah
Hungarian American chemist
Negishi Ei-ichi
Negishi Ei-ichi
Japanese chemist
Donald J. Cram
American chemist

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