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Born January 15, 1785 • England
Died April 9, 1850 (aged 65) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1827)
Subjects Of Study Prout’s hypothesis • atomic weight • classification • gas laws • gastric juice • human renal system • nutrient • urea
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Sir Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist

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