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Also Known As William Howard Stein
Born June 25, 1911 • New York City • New York
Died February 2, 1980 (aged 68) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study protein
Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Fenn, John B.
John B. Fenn
American scientist
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
Stanford Moore
American biochemist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
British biochemist
Tiselius, oil painting by William Fleetwood, 1965; in Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Swed.
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist
David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Modrich, Paul
Paul Modrich
American biochemist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Irwin Rose
American biochemist