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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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

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.

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

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

E

*Akira Endo, statins

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

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.

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

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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

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.

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

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

O

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

P

*Jakub Karol Parnas, (1884-1949), 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
*David Andrew Phoenix, (Born 1966), British, Structure-function relationships of amphiphilic peptides

Q

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

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

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

T

* Arne Tiselius, (1902–1971), Nobel laureate, developed protein electrophoresis.

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.

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.

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ee also

List of geneticists