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David Baker
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf Vrba
Slovak-Jewish biochemist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Katalin Karikó
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian-born biochemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Aleksandr Oparin, 1970.
Aleksandr Oparin
Russian biochemist
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J. Craig Venter
American geneticist, biochemist, and businessman
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
British-American mathematician and biochemist
Maud Leonora Menten
Maud Leonora Menten
Canadian biochemist and organic chemist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
Lindahl, Tomas
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar
Turkish-American biochemist
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Muriel Wheldale Onslow
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Elizabeth Blackburn
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