LIST OF BIOCHEMISTS

This page aims to list articles on about famous biochemists.
This list is not necessarily complete or up to date - if you see a biography that should be here but isn't (or one that shouldn't be here but is), please update the page accordingly, even if you have no information at hand for a biography.

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.
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Contents

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see also

A

★ 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.

B

★ Konrad Emil Bloch, (1912-2000), German-American, 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

★ Paul D. Boyer, studies on ATP synthase, won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1997

★ Adrian Brown, pioneer in enzyme kinetics

★ Eduard Buchner, (1860-1917), German, 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry see fermentation (biochemistry)

★ Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893 - 1970), Soviet chemist/biophysicist, Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

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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.

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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

★ Sergi Durmishidze (1910-1989), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry

★ Christian de Duve, (born 1917), British-born Belgian, 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

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★ El-Halfawi, M. H., Egyptian professor of soil biochemistry

★ Akira Endo, statins

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★ Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, (1910-1999), Polish, virus research.

★ Kazimierz Funk, (1884-1967), Polish, see Vitamin

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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.

★ Walter Gilbert, (born 1932), American, 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, molecular biologist, see also Biogen

★ Duane Gish, (???), ???, see Institute for Creation Research.

★ Varlam Gvaladze, (1893-1944), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry

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★ John Haldane, (1860-1936), Scottish physiologist.

★ Dorothy Hodgkin, (1910-1994), British founder of protein crystallography and Nobel Prize winner

★ Frederick Gowland Hopkins, 1861-1947, English Nobel Prize-winner for the discovery of vitamins

★ Wayne L. Hubbell American biochemist-pioneer of site-directed spin labeling

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★ Herman Kalckar, 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.

★ Arthur Kornberg, 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

★ George Kvesitadze (born 1942), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology

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★ Choh Hao Li (1913-1987) Known for discovering and synthesizing the human pituitary growth hormone.

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★ David Nachmansohn, (1899-1983), German, responsible for elucidating the role of phosphocreatine in energy production in the muscles.

★ John James Richard Macleod, (1876-1935), American, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovery of Insulin.

★ Thaddeus Mann, (1908-1993), British reproductive biologist.

★ Bruce McConnell (born 1933) American Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

★ Hardon M. McConnell, American biochemist

★ Alister McGrath (born 1953) British theologian

★ Maude Menten, of Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics fame

★ Peter Mitchell, British, 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

★ Leonor Michaelis, 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

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★ Joseph Needham (1900—1995), British

★ Carl Neuberg, (1877-1956) early German pioneer in the study of metabolism.

★ Marshall Warren Nirenberg, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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

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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

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

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★ David Rittenberg, (1906-1970), US, pioneer of radioactive ''tagging'' of molecules

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★ 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 Alzeimer 's disease.

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

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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.

★ D M Vasudevan

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★ Selman Waksman, (1888-1973), Russian, biochemist.

★ Friedrich Wöhler, (1810-1882), German, chemist.

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see also

List of geneticists