This page aims to list articles on about famous biochemists. A biochemist is a scientist trained and dedicated to producing results in the discipline of biochemistry. ...

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Note that the definition of biochemist is fairly loose here, and noted chemical biologists, biophysicists and others are included.

The format for each entry is:

• Name, (birth-death), Nationality, optional brief reason for fame - maybe including link.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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• Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992), Russian-born American, prolific author of popular science, as well as science-fiction.
• John E. Amoore, British, Biochemist who postulated the stereochemical theory of olfaction in 1952.
• William Astbury, (1898-1961), British, pioneer in applying X-ray crystallography to biological molecules such as proteins

Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), pronounced , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [1], was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ... Olfaction (also known as olfactics) refers to the sense of smell. ... William Astbury (1898-1961) was an English biochemist who made X-ray diffraction studies of nucleic acid in 1937. ...

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• Konrad Emil Bloch, (1912-2000), German-American, 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Paul D. Boyer, (born 1918), American, studies on ATP synthase, won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1997
• Adrian John Brown, (1852-1920), British, pioneer in enzyme kinetics
• Eduard Buchner, (1860-1917), German, 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry see fermentation (biochemistry)
• Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893 - 1970), USSR, chemist/biophysicist, Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

Konrad Emil Bloch (January 21, 1912 - October 15, 2000) was a German-American biochemist. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Paul Delos Boyer (born July 31, 1918) is an American biochemist. ... An ATP synthase (EC 3. ... Eduard Buchner (May 20, 1860 -- August 12, 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, the winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... For other uses, see Fermentation. ... Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893 - 1970) was a Soviet chemist / biophysicist who discovered the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction (BZ reaction) in the early 50s. ... A Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that result in the establishment of a nonlinear chemical oscillator. ...

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• Carl Ferdinand Cori, (1896-1984), American, 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, glycogen research.
• Gerty Cori, (1896-1957), American, 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, glycogen research.
• Peter Coveney, UK, Computational molecular biology specialist.
• Francis Crick, (1916-2004), British, discovered the double helical structure of DNA

Carl Ferdinand Cori (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) - a derivative of glucose... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Glycogen Structure Segment Glycogen is a polysaccharide of glucose (Glc) which functions as the primary short term energy storage in animal cells. ... Dr. Gerty Cori Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Glycogen Structure Segment Glycogen is a polysaccharide of glucose (Glc) which functions as the primary short term energy storage in animal cells. ... Peter V. Coveney is currently (April 2005) Professor in Physical Chemistry and Director, Centre for Computational Science (CCS) at University College London (UCL). ... Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004), (Ph. ...

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• Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895-1976), Danish, 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Revaz Dogonadze (1931-1985), Georgian, Co-author of the quantum-mechanical model of Enzyme Catalysis
• Jack Cecil Drummond FRS (1891-1952), isolation of Vitamin A, wartime advisor on nutrition
• Christian de Duve, (born 1917), British-born Belgian, 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Henrik Dam (Full name Carl Peter Henrik Dam) (February 21, 1895 - April 18, 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Revaz Dogonadze Revaz Dogonadze (November 21, 1931 - May 13, 1985) was a notable Georgian scientist, one of the founders of quantum electrochemistry, main author of the Quantum-Mechanical Theory of Kinetics of the Elementary Act of Chemical, Electrochemical and Biochemical Processes in Polar Liquids, Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy... Ribbon diagram of the enzyme TIM, surrounded by the space-filling model of the protein. ... he was a weenie ... The Fellowship of the Royal Society was founded in 1660. ... The structure of retinol, the most common dietary form of vitamin A Vitamin A is an essential human nutrient. ... The Nutrition Facts table indicates the amounts of nutrients which experts recommend you limit or consume in adequate amounts. ... Christian de Duve (born October 2, 1917) is a biochemist. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...

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• Akira Endo, statins

Dr. Endo Dr Akira Endo (born 14 November 1933) is a Japanese biochemist whose work on fungi and cholesterol led to the development of the highly successful class of statin drugs. ...

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• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, (1910-1999), Polish, virus research.
• Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), X-ray crystallographer who helped determine the structure of DNA
• Kazimierz Funk, (1884-1967), Polish, see Vitamin

Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat (July 29, 1910 – April 10, 1999) was a biochemist, famous for his viral research. ... This article is about biological infectious particles. ... Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 Kensington, London – 16 April 1958 Chelsea, London) was an English biophysicist and crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite. ... Kazimierz Funk (February 23, 1884 - January 19, 1967), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish biochemist, generally credited with the first formulation of the concept of Vitamins in 1912, which he called vital amines or vitamines. ... Retinol (Vitamin A) A vitamin is a nutrient that is an organic compound required in tiny amounts for essential metabolic reactions in a living organism. ...

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• Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist
• David E. Green, (1910 - 1983) pioneer in the study of enzymes, particularly those involved in oxidative phosphorylation.
• Frederick Griffith, (1879 - 1941), British, discovered that DNA carried hereditary information.
• Walter Gilbert, (born 1932), American, 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, molecular biologist, see also Biogen
• Duane Gish, (???), ???, see Institute for Creation Research.

Merrill Garnett is a biochemist and cancer researcher, and the founder and director of Garnett McKeen Laboratory, Inc. ... A biochemist is a scientist trained and dedicated to producing results in the discipline of biochemistry. ... David Ezra Green (1910 - 1983) was an America biochemist who made huge contributions to the study of enzymes, particularly the electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation. ... Ribbon diagram of the enzyme TIM, surrounded by the space-filling model of the protein. ... The electron transport chain in the mitochondrion is the site of oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotes. ... Frederick Griffith (1879 - 1941) was a British medical officer. ... Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American physicist, biochemist,and molecular biology pioneer. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... Biogen Idec Inc. ... Duane Tolbert Gish (born February 17, 1921) is an American biochemist who is one of the most prominent and outspoken members of the creationist movement. ... The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is a biblical research institute based in Santee, California that focuses on constructing and teaching a Young Earth Creationist world-view. ...

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• John Scott Haldane, (1860-1936), British, physiologist.
• Dorothy Hodgkin, (1910-1994), British, founder of protein crystallography and Nobel Prize winner
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins, (1861-1947), British, Nobel Prize-winner for the discovery of vitamins
• Arthur Harden, (1865-1940), British, awarded a Nobel prize for studies on the enzymes of fermentation
• Wayne L. Hubbell, (born 1943), American, biochemist-pioneer of site-directed spin labeling

John Scott Haldane (May 3, 1860 - March 15/March 14, 1936) was a Scottish medical doctor. ... Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM (May 12, 1910–July 29, 1994) was a British scientist, born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in Cairo. ... A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin showing coloured alpha helices. ... Crystallography (from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and graphein = write) is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. ... The Nobel Prize (Swedish: ) was established in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. ... Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861 - 1947) was an English biochemist. ... The Nobel Prize (Swedish: ) was established in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. ... Retinol (Vitamin A) A vitamin is a nutrient that is an organic compound required in tiny amounts for essential metabolic reactions in a living organism. ... Arthur Harden (October 12, 1865 – June 17, 1940) was an English biochemist. ... Fermentation in progress Fermentation typically refers to the conversion of sugar to alcohol using yeast. ... Wayne L. Hubbell (born 24 March 1943) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. ...

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• Herman Kalckar, (1908-1991), Danish, early work on cellular respiration, nucleotide metabolism and galactose metabolism.
• Sir Bernard Katz (1911-2003), German-born, 1970 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work on nerve biochemistry and the pineal gland.
• Stuart Alan Kauffman, (born 1939), ???,
• John Kendrew, (1917-1997), British. Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for determining the first crystal structure of a protein, myoglobin.
• Sir Ernest Kennaway, (1881–1958), British. Early work on carcinogenic effects of hydrocarbons
• Arthur Kornberg, (1918-2007) American biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in 1959 for discovery of DNA polymerase.
• Sir Hans Kornberg, (born 1928), British. Microbial biochemistry
• Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in 2006 for studies on RNA polymerase.
• Thomas B. Kornberg, American biochemist
• Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, (1900-1981), German, 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine see Krebs cycle

Herman Moritz Kalckar (1908 -1991) was a Danish biochemist who pioneered the study of cellular respiration. ... Cellular respiration was discovered by mad scientist Mr. ... Sir Bernard Katz, FRS (March 26, 1911 – April 20, 2003) was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... The pineal gland (also called the pineal body or epiphysis) is a small endocrine gland in the brain. ... Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is a theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher, who has given much thought to the origin of life on Earth. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An X-ray diffraction image for the protein myoglobin. ... Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg (born March 3, 1918) is an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. ... Sir Hans Kornberg (born 14 January 1928) is a British biologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. ... Roger D. Kornberg two days after his Nobel Prize was declared, at the felicitation at Stanford University held at Fairchild auditorium, in the same building complex where he works. ... Thomas Bill Kornberg is an American biochemist who was the first person to purify and characterise DNA polymerase II and DNA polymerase III.[1][2] He is currently a Professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco working on Drosophila melanogaster development. ... Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (August 25, 1900 – November 22, 1981) was a German, later British medical doctor and biochemist. ... January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... The citric acid cycle (also known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the TCA cycle, or the Krebs cycle) is a series of chemical reactions of central importance in all living cells that utilize oxygen as part of cellular respiration. ...

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• Phoebus Levene, (1869-1940), Russian, discovered that DNA was composed of nucleobases and phosphate.
• Choh Hao Li (1913-1987) Known for discovering and synthesizing the human pituitary growth hormone.

Molecular diagram of a hypothetical tetranucleotide, as proposed (incorrectly) by Phoebus Levene around 1910. ... Choh Hao Li (sometimes Cho Hao Li) (April 21, 1913—November 28, 1987) was a Chinese-born U.S. biochemist who discovered, in 1966, that human pituitary growth hormone (somatotropin) consists of a chain of 256 amino acids. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about modern humans. ... Located at the base of the skull, the pituitary gland is protected by a bony structure called the sella turcica. ... For other uses, see Hormone (disambiguation). ...

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• John James Richard Macleod, (1876-1935), American, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovery of Insulin.
• Thaddeus Mann, (1908-1993), British reproductive biologist.
• Harden M. McConnell, (born 1927) American biochemist
• Alister McGrath (born 1953) British theologian
• Maude Menten, (1879-1960) Canadian, early work on enzyme kinetics.
• Friedrich Miescher, (1844-1895) first scientist to isolate DNA
• Peter Mitchell, (1920-1992) British, 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Leonor Michaelis, (1875-1949) German, early work on enzyme kinetics.
• Jacques Monod, (1910-1976), French, 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Kary Mullis, (born 1944), American, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry see Polymerase chain reaction
• Elmer Verner McCollum (1879-1967) Co-Discovered Vitamins A and D and their benefits

John James Richard Macleod John James Richard Macleod (September 6, 1876 – March 16, 1935) was a Scottish physician, physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Not to be confused with inulin. ... Thaddeus Mann (1908-1993) was a biochemist who made significant contributions to the field of reproductive biology. ... Harden M. McConnell (1927-) is an American physical chemist at Stanford University[1]. // Harden M. McConnell was born on July 18, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia. ... Alister E. McGrath (b. ... Maud Leonora Menten (March 20, 1879 – July 26, 1960) was a Canadian medical scientist who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry. ... Dihydrofolate reductase from with its two substrates, dihydrofolate (right) and NADPH (left), bound in the active site. ... Friedrich Miescher Basel, - 26 August 1895, Davos) was a Swiss biologist. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ... Peter D. Mitchell (September 29, 1920- April 10, 1992) was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for formulation of the chemiosmotic theory of mitochondrial function. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... Leonor Michaelis (January 16, 1875 – October 8, 1947) was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten kinetics. ... Dihydrofolate reductase from with its two substrates, dihydrofolate (right) and NADPH (left), bound in the active site. ... See also Jacques-Louis Monod, French-born composer and cousin of Jacques Monod. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Kary Banks Mullis, Ph. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... “PCR” redirects here. ... Elmer Verner McCollum was born in 1879 and died in 1967. ... Year 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Retinol (Vitamin A) Vitamins are nutrients required in very small amounts for essential metabolic reactions in the body [1]. The term vitamin does not encompass other essential nutrients such as dietary minerals, essential fatty acids, or essential amino acids. ...

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• David Nachmansohn, (1899-1983), German, responsible for elucidating the role of phosphocreatine in energy production in the muscles.
• Joseph Needham, (1900—1995), British, studied the history of Chinese science
• Carl Neuberg, (1877-1956), German, pioneer in the study of metabolism.
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg, (born 1927), American, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Paul Nurse, (born 1949), British, awarded a Nobel prize for studies on the control of the cell cycle

Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (December 9, 1900 – March 24, 1995) was a British biochemist and pre-eminent authority on the history of Chinese science. ... Carl Alexander Neuberg (1877-1956) was an early pioneer in biochemistry, and the first editor of the journal Biochemische Zeitschrift. ... Structure of the coenzyme adenosine triphosphate, a central intermediate in energy metabolism. ... Marshall Nirenberg Marshall Warren Nirenberg (born April 10, 1927) is a U.S. biochemist and geneticist. ... Sir Paul M. Nurse, FRS, (b. ... The cell cycle, or cell-division cycle, is the series of events that take place in a eukaryotic cell leading to its replication. ...

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• Frank Olsen, (?-1953), American, Non-consenting subject of CIA MKULTRA

Frank Olson (died 28 November 1953) was a U.S. Army scientist at the top secret Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, who died under mysterious circumstances in New York City on November 28, 1953. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

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• Jakub Karol Parnas, (1984-1949), Polish - Soviet, major contributor to the discovery of glycolysis
• Linus Pauling, (1901-1994) American, 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Louis Pasteur, (1822-1895), French, Pioneer in microbiology and stereochemistry
• Max Perutz, (1914-2002), British, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for solving the crystal structure of hemoglobin

Glycolysis is the sequence of reactions that converts glucose into pyruvate with the concomitant production of a relatively small amount of ATP. The word is derived from Greek γλυκύς (sweet) and λύσις (letting loose). ... Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in microbiology. ... An agar plate streaked with microorganisms Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. ... The different types of isomers. ... Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM (May 19, 1914 – February 6, 2002) was an Austrian-British molecular biologist. ... Structure of hemoglobin. ...

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• Judah Hirsch Quastel, (1899-1987), British-Canadian, neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cell metabolism, and cancer.

Judah Hirsch Quastel, British-Canadian biochemist and Companion of the Order of Canada Juda Hirsch Quastel (1899-1987), a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cell metabolism, and cancer. ...

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• David Rittenberg, (1906-1970), US, pioneer in the use of radioactive tracers in molecules

David Rittenberg (November 11, 1906 — January 24, 1970) was a US biochemist who pioneered the radioactive tagging of molecules enabling detailed studies of metabolism. ... A radioactive tracer is a substance containing a radioactive isotope (radioisotope). ... 3D (left and center) and 2D (right) representations of the terpenoid molecule atisane. ...

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• Frederick Sanger (born 1918), two Nobel prizes for DNA sequencing and protein sequencing.

• Rudolph Schoenheimer (1898 - 1941), German/US, pioneer of radioactive tagging of molecules

• Raj Shankar, (1947-2000), Indian Neurobiochemist, Work on: Cerebral Metabolism , Signal transduction and for establishing that there is phosphorylation related folding problem of proteins in Alzheimer's disease.

• Alexander Shulgin, (Born 1925), Russian/American pharmacologist, popularized MDMA in America, and work with various psychoactive drugs

Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS (born 13 August 1918) is an English biochemist and a two time Nobel laureate in chemistry. ... The term DNA sequencing encompasses biochemical methods for determining the order of the nucleotide bases, adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, in a DNA oligonucleotide. ... Proteins are found in every cell and are essential to every biological process, protein structure is very complex: determining a proteins structure involves first protein sequencing - determining the amino acid sequences of its constituent peptides; and also determining what conformation it adopts and whether it is complexed with any... Rudolph Schoenheimer (May 10, 1898, - September 11, 1941) was a German/ US biochemist who developed the technique of isotope tagging of biomolecules, enabling detailed study of metabolism. ... Radioactive decay is the set of various processes by which unstable atomic nuclei (nuclides) emit subatomic particles. ... 3D (left and center) and 2D (right) representations of the terpenoid molecule atisane. ... Raj Shankar (2 April 1947, Gorakhpur, India-22 August 2000), was an Indian biochemist. ... In biology, signal transduction refers to any process by which a cell converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another, most often involving ordered sequences of biochemical reactions inside the cell, that are carried out by enzymes and linked through second messengers resulting in what is thought of as... Alexander and Ann Shulgin, in a photo from their book TiHKAL, c. ... ecstasy and religious ecstasy MDMA, most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the brain to rapidly secrete large amounts of serotonin, causing a general sense of openness, empathy, energy, euphoria, and well-being. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

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• Angela Vincent, (born ?), British, Autoimmune and genetic disorders.
• Frederic Vester, (1925-2003), German, Author and ecologist.
• John Craig Venter, (born 1946), American, Human Genome Project.

Angela Vincent is a professor at Somerville College of Oxford University. ... Prof. ... Dr. Venter (right) with Michael Janich on his visit in Hong Kong in December 2004 John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman. ... The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international scientific research project. ...

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• Selman Waksman, (1888-1973), Russian, biochemist.
• James D. Watson, (born 1928), American, discovered the double helical structure of DNA
• Maurice Wilkins, (1916-2004), British, discovered the double helical structure of DNA
• Friedrich Wöhler, (1810-1882), German, chemist.

Selman Abraham Waksman (22 July 1888 – 16 August 1973) was an Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms that live in soil—and their decomposition lead to the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. ... James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic... Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fields of phosphorescence, radar, isotope separation, and X-ray diffraction. ... Friedrich Wöhler Friedrich Wöhler (July 31, 1800 - September 23, 1882) was a German chemist, best-known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to isolate several of the elements. ...

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List of geneticists This is a list of people who have made notable contributions to genetics. ...