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.
William Astbury, (1898-1961), British, pioneer in applying X-ray crystallography to biological molecules such as proteins

[edit] B

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.

[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.
Francis Crick, (1916-2004), British, discovered the double helical structure of DNA

[edit] D

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

[edit] E

Akira Endo, statins

[edit] F

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

[edit] G

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.

[edit] H

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

[edit] I

[edit] J

[edit] K

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

[edit] L

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.

[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.
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

[edit] N

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

[edit] O

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

[edit] P

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

[edit] Q

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

[edit] R

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

Dr R.H Sankhala, (1922–1999), India, Double Ph.D (Organic Chemistry & Bio-Chemistry)

Jane S. Richardson, (1941– ), US, developer of the ribbon diagram

[edit] S

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

[edit] T

[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.

[edit] W

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.