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Maud Leonora Menten
Maud Leonora Menten
Canadian biochemist and organic chemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
Ernst Felix Hoppe-Seyler
German physician

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