List of biochemists
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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.
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
[edit] 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.
[edit] B
- Konrad Emil Bloch, (1912-2000), German-American, 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 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.
[edit] C
- 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.
[edit] D
- Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895-1976), Danish, 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Sergi Durmishidze (1910-1989), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry
- Revaz Dogonadze, (1931-1985), Georgian, Co-author of the quantum-mechanical model of Enzyme Catalysis
- Christian de Duve, (born 1917), British-born Belgian, 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- Ciara Dowling Conjugation of Progesterone and its Purification
[edit] E
- El-Halfawi, M. H., Egyptian professor of soil biochemistry
- Akira Endo, statins
[edit] F
- Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, (1910-1999), Polish, virus research.
- Kazimierz Funk, (1884-1967), Polish, see Vitamin
[edit] G
- Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist
- 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
[edit] H
- 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
[edit] I
[edit] J
[edit] K
- 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 Hans Kornberg, (born 1928), British. Microbial biochemistry
- 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
[edit] L
[edit] M
- 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, enzyme kineticist
- 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
[edit] N
- Joseph Needham (1900—1995), British
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
[edit] O
- Frank Olsen, (?-1953), American, Non-consenting subject of CIA MKULTRA
[edit] P
- 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
[edit] Q
- Judah Hirsch Quastel, (1899-1987), British-Canadian, neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cell metabolism, and cancer.
[edit] R
- David Rittenberg, (1906-1970), US, pioneer of radioactive tagging of molecules
[edit] S
- Rudolph Schoenheimer (1898 - 1941), German/US, pioneer of radioactive tagging of molecules
- Raj Shankar, (1947-2000), Indian neurobiochemist, work on cerebral metabolism and signal transduction
- Alexander Shulgin, (Born 1925), Russian/American pharmacologist, popularized MDMA in America, and work with various psychoactive drugs
[edit] T
- Serge N. Timasheff
- Thierry Srikaran, Sri Lankan + French, born around 1980-1995
Tahir Shamas(1979) Pakistan Biochemist, purification and partial characterization of thermostable proteases from Actinomycetes MS-8.
[edit] V
- 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
[edit] W
- Selman Waksman, (1888-1973), Russian, biochemist.
- Friedrich Wöhler, (1810-1882), German, chemist.
