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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac Asimov | Isaac Asimov | 1920 | 1992 | American | writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov |
| Rudolf Vrba | Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba | 1924 | 2006 | Slovak | Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba |
| Chaim Weizmann | Chaim Azriel Weizmann | 1874 | 1952 | Russian | biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann |
| Ernst Chain | Sir Ernst Boris Chain | 1906 | 1979 | German | biochemist best known for being a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Chain |
| Arthur Kornberg | Arthur Kornberg | 1918 | 2007 | 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 Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kornberg |
| Abram Hoffer | Abram Hoffer | 1917 | 2009 | Canadian | biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist known for his "adrenochrome hypothesis" of schizoaffective disorders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Hoffer |
| Paul Berg | Paul Berg | 1926 | n/a | American | biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Berg |
| Eric Kandel | Eric Richard Kandel | 1929 | n/a | Austrian | medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Kandel |
| Selman Waksman | Selman Abraham Waksman | 1888 | 1973 | Russian | Empire-born Jewish-American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selman_Waksman |
| Gerty Cori | Gerty Theresa Cori | 1896 | 1957 | Austrian | biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her significant role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerty_Cori |
| Julius Axelrod | Julius Axelrod | 1912 | 2004 | American | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Axelrod |
| Avram Hershko | Avram Hershko | 1937 | n/a | Israeli | biochemist of Hungarian Jewish origin who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avram_Hershko |
| César Milstein | César Milstein, CH, FRS | 1927 | 2002 | Argentine | biochemist in the field of antibody research | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Milstein |
| Gertrude B. Elion | Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion | 1918 | 1999 | American | biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_B._Elion |
| Alfred G. Gilman | Alfred Goodman Gilman | 1941 | 2015 | American | pharmacologist and biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_G._Gilman |
| Marc Kirschner | Marc Wallace Kirschner | 1945 | n/a | American | cell biologist and biochemist and the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kirschner |
| Erwin Chargaff | Erwin Chargaff | 1905 | 2002 | Austrian | biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Chargaff |
| Hans Kornberg | Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS | 1928 | 2019 | British | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kornberg |
| Edmond H. Fischer | Edmond Henri Fischer | 1920 | 2021 | American | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_H._Fischer |
| Nathan Sharon | Nathan Sharon | 1925 | 2011 | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Sharon |
| Arieh Warshel | Arieh Warshel | 1940 | n/a | Israeli | biochemist and biophysicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arieh_Warshel |
| Martin Rodbell | Martin Rodbell | 1925 | 1998 | American | biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rodbell |
| Robert Lefkowitz | Robert Joseph Lefkowitz | 1943 | n/a | American | physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lefkowitz |
| James Rothman | James Edward Rothman | 1950 | n/a | American | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rothman |
| Max Bergmann | Max Bergmann | 1886 | 1944 | German | Jewish biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bergmann |
| David E. Green | David Ezra Green | 1910 | 1983 | American | biochemist who made significant contributions to the study of enzymes, particularly the electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Green |
| Joseph L. Goldstein | Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS | 1940 | n/a | American | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_L._Goldstein |
| Konrad Emil Bloch | Konrad Emil Bloch , ForMemRS | 1912 | 2000 | German | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Emil_Bloch |
| Stanley B. Prusiner | Stanley Benjamin Prusiner | 1942 | n/a | American | neurologist and biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_B._Prusiner |
| Christian B. Anfinsen | Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. | 1916 | 1995 | American | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_B._Anfinsen |
| Bruce Alberts | Bruce Michael Alberts | 1938 | n/a | American | biochemist and the Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Alberts |
| Roger D. Kornberg | Roger David Kornberg | 1947 | n/a | American | biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_D._Kornberg |
| Stanley Cohen (biochemist) | Stanley N. Cohen | 1922 | 2020 | American | biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cohen_(biochemist) |
| Marshall Warren Nirenberg | Marshall Warren Nirenberg | 1927 | 2010 | American | biochemist and geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Warren_Nirenberg |
| Otto Fritz Meyerhof | Otto Fritz Meyerhof | 1884 | 1951 | German | physician and biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Fritz_Meyerhof |
| David Eisenberg | David S. Eisenberg | 1939 | n/a | American | biochemist and biophysicist best known for his contributions to structural biology and computational molecular biology, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since the early 1970s and director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics since the early 1990s, as well as a member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eisenberg |
| Lina Stern | Lina Solomonovna Stern | 1878 | 1968 | Soviet | biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War II. She is best known for her pioneering work on the blood–brain barrier, which she described as hemato-encephalic barrier in 1921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Stern |
| Fritz Albert Lipmann | Fritz Albert Lipmann | 1899 | 1986 | German | biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 (shared with Hans Adolf Krebs) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Albert_Lipmann |
| Robert F. Furchgott | Robert Francis Furchgott | 1916 | 2009 | null | Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Furchgott |
| Ruth Arnon | Ruth Arnon | 1933 | n/a | Israeli | biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Arnon |
| Casimir Funk | Kazimierz Funk | 1884 | 1967 | Polish | biochemist, generally credited with being among the first to formulate (in 1912) the concept of vitamins, which he called "vital amines" or "vitamines" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Funk |
| Carl Neuberg | Carl Alexander Neuberg | 1877 | 1956 | null | early pioneer in biochemistry, and he is often referred to as the "father of modern biochemistry" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Neuberg |
| Max Henius | Max Henius | 1859 | 1935 | Danish | biochemist who specialized in the fermentation processes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Henius |
| Leonor Michaelis | Leonor Michaelis | 1875 | 1949 | German | biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics in 1913, as well as for work on enzyme inhibition, pH and quinones | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor_Michaelis |
| Phoebus Levene | Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene | 1869 | 1940 | American | biochemist who studied the structure and function of nucleic acids | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_Levene |
| Rachel Haurwitz | Rachel Elizabeth Haurwitz | 1985 | n/a | American | biochemist and structural biologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Haurwitz |
| William Howard Stein | William Howard Stein | 1911 | 1980 | American | biochemist who collaborated in the determination of the ribonuclease sequence, as well as how its structure relates to catalytic activity, earning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 for his work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Stein |
| Simon Fishel | Simon Fishel | 1953 | n/a | English | physiologist, biochemist and pioneering in vitro fertilisation (IVF) specialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fishel |
| Mildred Cohn | Mildred Cohn | 1913 | 2009 | American | biochemist who furthered understanding of biochemical processes through her study of chemical reactions within animal cells | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Cohn |
| Asher Korner | Asher Korner | 1929 | 1971 | British | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asher_Korner |
| Juda Hirsch Quastel | Juda Hirsch Quastel | 1899 | 1987 | British | biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juda_Hirsch_Quastel |
| Daniel E. Koshland Jr. | Daniel Edward Koshland Jr. | 1920 | 2007 | American | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_E._Koshland_Jr. |
| Hans Krebs (biochemist) | Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS | 1900 | 1981 | German | biologist, physician and biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Krebs_(biochemist) |
| Philip Handler | Philip Handler | 1917 | 1981 | American | nutritionist, and biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Handler |
| Nahum Sonenberg | Nahum Sonenberg | 1946 | n/a | Israeli | microbiologist and biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Sonenberg |
| Meir Wilchek | Meir Wilchek | 1935 | n/a | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Wilchek |
| Anne Beloff-Chain | Anne Ethel Beloff-Chain, Lady Chain | 1921 | 1991 | British | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Beloff-Chain |
| Michael Neuberger | Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS FMedSci | 1953 | 2013 | British | biochemist and immunologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Neuberger |
| Joseph Schlessinger | Joseph Schlessinger | 1945 | n/a | Yugoslav | biochemist and biophysician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schlessinger |
| Irwin Fridovich | Irwin Fridovich | 1929 | 2019 | American | biochemist who, together with his graduate student Joe M. McCord, discovered the enzymatic activity of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD),—to protect organisms from the toxic effects of superoxide free radicals formed as a byproduct of normal oxygen metabolism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Fridovich |
| Solomon Berson | Solomon Aaron Berson | 1918 | 1972 | American | physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Berson |
| Howard Cedar | Howard Chaim Cedar | 1943 | n/a | Israeli | biochemist who works on DNA methylation, a mechanism that turns genes on and off | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cedar |
| Alexander Levitzki | Alexander Levitzki | 1940 | n/a | Israeli | biochemist who is a professor of biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Levitzki |
| Hans Kosterlitz | Hans Walter Kosterlitz FRS | 1903 | 1996 | German | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kosterlitz |
| Rudolph Schoenheimer | Rudolf Schoenheimer | 1898 | 1941 | German | biochemist who developed the technique of isotope labelling/tagging of biomolecules, enabling detailed study of metabolism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Schoenheimer |
| Efraim Racker | Efraim Racker | 1913 | 1991 | Austrian | biochemist who was responsible for identifying and purifying Factor 1 (F1), the first part of the ATP synthase enzyme to be characterised | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efraim_Racker |
| Jakub Karol Parnas | Jakub Karol Parnas | 1884 | 1949 | null | prominent Jewish-Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway, together with Otto Fritz Meyerhof and Gustav Georg Embden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Karol_Parnas |
| Sidney W. Fox | Sidney Walter Fox | 1912 | 1998 | null | Los Angeles-born biochemist responsible for discoveries on the origins of biological systems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_W._Fox |
| Aharon Razin | Aharon Razin | 1935 | 2019 | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Razin |
| Grigory Mairanovsky | Grigory Moiseevich Mairanovsky | 1899 | 1964 | Soviet | biochemist and poison developer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Mairanovsky |
| Joseph Owades | Joseph Lawrence Owades | 1919 | 2005 | American | biochemist and brewer of light and industrially produced beer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Owades |
| Lars Ernster | Lars Ernster | 1920 | 1998 | null | professor of biochemistry, and a member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Ernster |
| David Sidney Feingold | David Sidney Feingold | 1922 | 2019 | American | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sidney_Feingold |
| David Nachmansohn | David Nachmansohn | 1899 | 1983 | German | Jewish biochemist responsible for elucidating the role of phosphocreatine in energy production in the muscles, and the role of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in nerve stimulation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nachmansohn |
| Haim Ernst Wertheimer | Haim Ernst Wertheimer | 1893 | 1978 | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Ernst_Wertheimer |
| Charles Tanford | Charles Tanford | 1921 | 2009 | German | protein biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tanford |
| Paul Gyorgy | Paul György | 1893 | 1976 | Hungarian | biochemist, nutritionist, and pediatrician best known for his discovery of three B vitamins: riboflavin, B6, and biotin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gyorgy |
| Samuel Mitja Rapoport | Samuel Mitja Rapoport | 1912 | 2004 | German | Empire-born German university professor of biochemistry in East Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mitja_Rapoport |
| Sarah Ratner | Sarah Ratner | 1903 | 1999 | American | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Ratner |
| Thomas B. Kornberg | Thomas Bill Kornberg | null | null | American | biochemist who was the first person to purify and characterise DNA polymerase II and DNA polymerase III. He is currently a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and is working on Drosophila melanogaster development | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_B._Kornberg |
| Shlomo Hestrin | Shlomo Hestrin | 1914 | 1962 | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Hestrin |
| Regina Kapeller-Adler | Regina Kapeller-Adler | 1900 | 1991 | Austrian | biochemist who, in 1934, devised an innovative test for early pregnancy based on the detection of histidine in urine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Kapeller-Adler |
| Ralph Dorfman | Ralph Isadore Dorfman | 1911 | 1985 | American | Jewish biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Dorfman |
| Israel Kleiner (biochemist) | Israel Simon Kleiner | 1885 | 1966 | null | biochemist whose work helped lead to the discovery of insulin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Kleiner_(biochemist) |
| Hermann Lehmann | Hermann Lehmann | 1910 | 1985 | German | physician and biochemist known for his works on the chemistry and diversity of hemoglobin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Lehmann |
| Aaron Bodansky | Aaron Bodansky | 1887 | 1960 | Russian | biochemist remembered for describing the Bodansky unit in the measurement of alkaline phosphatase in blood | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Bodansky |
| Benjamin Shapira | Benjamin Shapira | 1913 | 1993 | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Shapira |
| Zacharias Dische | Zacharias Dische | 1895 | 1988 | American | biochemist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Dische |
| Maurice M. Rapport | Maurice Rapport | 1919 | 2011 | null | biochemist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter serotonin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_M._Rapport |
| Otto Neubauer | Otto Neubauer | 1874 | 1957 | null | Bohemia-born physician and biochemist who was responsible for several clinical diagnostic innovations including the Neubauer-Fischer test to evaluate kidney function and the Neubauer counting chamber | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neubauer |
| Sylvy Kornberg | Sylvy Kornberg née Sylvia Ruth Levy | 1917 | 1986 | American | biochemist who carried out research on DNA replication and polyphosphate synthesis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvy_Kornberg |
| Eli Keshet | Eli Keshet | null | null | Israeli | biochemist and professor of molecular biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Keshet |
| Amiram Barkai | Amiram Israel Barkai | 1936 | 2014 | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiram_Barkai |
| Gad Avigad | Gad Avigad | 1930 | n/a | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Avigad |
| Adrian Krainer (scientist) | Adrian Robert Krainer | null | null | Uruguayan | biochemist and molecular geneticist known for his research into RNA gene-splicing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Krainer_(scientist) |
| Deborah Mowshowitz | Deborah Mowshowitz | null | null | American | biochemist and a Professor of Biology and Director of Undergraduate Programs and Lab Operations at Columbia University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Mowshowitz |
| I. Robert Lehman | Israel Robert Lehman | 1924 | n/a | null | emeritus professor of biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine who has made major contributions in characterizing the process of homologous recombination | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._Robert_Lehman |
| Samuel Barnett Schryver | Samuel Barnett Schryver | 1869 | 1929 | British | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett_Schryver |
| Gerhard Schmidt (biochemist) | Gerhard Schmidt | 1901 | 1981 | German | physician and biochemist who was regarded as "a world authority on nucleic acids and phospholipids | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schmidt_(biochemist) |
| Anita Dolly Panek | Anita Dolly Haubenstock Panek | null | null | Brazilian | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dolly_Panek |
| Isaac Berenblum | Isaac Berenblum | 1903 | 2000 | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Berenblum |
| Shimon Schuldiner | Shimon Schuldiner | 1946 | n/a | Israeli | biochemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Schuldiner |
| Ariel G. Loewy | Ariel Gideon Loewy | 1925 | 2001 | null | biochemist and cell biologist who spent most of his career on the faculty at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania and was an adjunct professor at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine at the time of his death in 2001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_G._Loewy |
| Brian David Dynlacht | Brian David Dynlacht | 1965 | n/a | American | biochemist and Professor in the Department of Pathology of New York University School of Medicine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_David_Dynlacht |
| Theodore Sourkes | Theodore Lionel Sourkes | 1919 | 2015 | Canadian | biochemist and neuropsychopharmacologist who helped advance the treatment of Parkinson's disease and hypertension | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Sourkes |
| William Z. Hassid | William Zev Hassid | 1899 | 1974 | null | pioneer research scientist in sugar biochemistry, who announced the synthesis of sucrose in 1944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Z._Hassid |
| Gerold Grodsky | Gerold Grodsky | null | null | American | professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Diabetes Center, as well as a diabetes researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerold_Grodsky |