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Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860.

Michel-Eugène Chevreul

French chemist

Ōmura Satoshi

Ōmura Satoshi

Japanese microbiologist

Konrad E. Bloch.

Konrad E. Bloch

American biochemist

Feodor Lynen

German biochemist