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Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
Gustav Georg Embden
German chemist
Leloir, Luis Federico
Luis Federico Leloir
Argentine biochemist
J.J.R. Macleod, 1920
J.J.R. Macleod
Scottish physiologist
Eduard Buchner
German biochemist