Biochemists

A biochemist is a specialized type of scientists who studies the chemical and physical properties of living things and biological processes such as cell development, growth and heredity.

Biochemistry is the study of the structure, composition and chemical reactions of substances in living organisms. Biochemistry emerged as a discipline in the last decade of the 19th century when scientists began to combine biology with chemistry. These early biochemists began to study how living things obtain energy from food, the chemical basis for heredity, and what changes occur in disease.

Biochemistry has a wide array of applications, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and botany (the study of plants). Biochemistry also spans pharmacology, microbiology and clinical chemistry.

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List of Biochemists

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• Mike Abbot
• John Jacob Abel, (1857-1938)
• John Abelson, (b. 1938)
• Edward Abraham (1913-1999)
• Gary Ackers, (1939-2011)
• Brian Adam (1948-2013)
• Julius Adler, (b. 1930)
• David Agard
• Natalie Ahn
• Aysel Akdeniz
• Bruce Alberts
• Denis Alexander, (b. 1945)
• Charles Allain
• Richard Amasino,
• Bruce Ames, (b. 1928)
• John E. Amoore
• Rudolph John Anderson, (1879-1961)
• Thomas F. Anderson, (1911-1991)
• Mortimer Louis Anson, (1901-1968)
• Judy Armitage
• Gilbert Ashwell, (1916-2014)
• Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)
• William Astbury, (1898–1961)
• Milo Aukerman, (b. 1963)
• Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (1901-1951)
• David Baker (born 1962)
• Tania A. Baker
• Clinton Ballou (b. 1923)
• Horace Barker (1907-2000)
• Julian Banzon (1908-1988)
• David Bartel
• Paul Baskis
• Bonnie Bassler (b. 1962)
• Philip A. Beachy (b. 1958)
• Jon Beckwith (b. 1935)
• Lorena S. Beese
• Michael Behe (b. 1952)
• Helmut Beinert (1913-2007)
• Marlene Belfort (b. 1945)
• Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893–1970)
• Paul Berg (born 1926), awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980
• Sune Bergström
• Helen M. Berman
• Klaus Biemann (b. 1926)
• Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1890-1975)
• Pamela J. Bjorkman (b. 1956)
• Konrad Emil Bloch (1912–2000), awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964
• Elizabeth Blackburn
• Elkan Blout (1919-2006)
• Aaron Bodansky (1887-1960)
• Paul D. Boyer (born 1918), awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997
• Harold C. Bradley (1878-1976)
• Roscoe Brady (b. 1923)
• Kenneth Breslauer
• Anne Briscoe (1918-2014)
• Bernard Brodie (1907-1989)
• Adrian John Brown (1852–1920)
• Patrick O. Brown (b. 1954)
• Thomas Bruice
• John Buchanan
• Eduard Buchner (1860–1917)
• Dean Burk (1904–1988)
• Robert H. Burris (1914-2010)
• David S. Cafiso, (b. 1952)
• T. Colin Campbell, (b. 1934)
• David E. Cane, (b. 1944)
• Lewis C. Cantley, (b. 1949)
• John Carbon,
• H. E. Carter, (1910-2007)
• Thomas Cech, (b. 1947), awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in in 1989 with Sidney Altman
• Howard Cedar, (b. 1943)
• Michael Chamberlin (b. 1937)
• Britton Chance, (1913-2010)
• Christopher Chang, (b. 1974)
• Michelle Chang, (b. 1977)
• Emmett Chappelle, (b. 1925)
• Erwin Chargaff, (1905-2002)
• Martha Chase, (1927-2003)
• Zhijian James Chen
• Christopher Chetsanga
• Gilbert Chu
• Paul Chun
• George M. Church, (b. 1954)
• Steven Clarke, (b. 1949)
• W. Wallace Cleland, (1930-2013)
• Philip Cohen, (born 1945)
• Stanley Cohen
• Edwin Joseph Cohn, (1892-1953)
• Mildred Cohn, (1913-2009)
• Harold Copp (1915-1998)
• Robert Corey, (1897–1971)
• Carl Ferdinand Cori, (1896–1984)
• Gerty Cori, (1896–1957), awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947
• Shirley Corriher, (b. 1935)
• Peter Coveney
• Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, (1938-2006)
• Gerald Crabtree, (b. 1946)
• Elizabeth A. Craig
• Margaret Crane
• Robert K. Crane, (1919-2010)
• Francis Crick, (1916–2004)
• Lourdes J. Cruz,
• Pedro Cuatrecasas, (b. 1936)
• Richard D. Cummings,
• David Cushman, (1939-2000)
• Valerie Daggett
• John Call Dalton (1825-1889)
• John W. Daly (1933-2008)
• Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003)
• Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895–1976), awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1943
• Stephen Dank
• Robert B. Darnell (b. 1957),
• Ronald W. Davis (b. 1941),
• Dee Datta,
• Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925-1983),
• Michael W. Deem
• William DeGrado
• Hector DeLuca
• Lawrence J. DeLucas
• Charles Enrique Dent
• Michael Denton (1943-2011)
• Pierre De Meyts (1944)
• Willey Glover Denis (1879-1929),
• Herbert C. Dessauer (1921-2013)
• Revaz Dogonadze (1931–1985)
• Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893-1986),
• Ford Doolittle (b. 1942),
• Jonathan Dordick (b. 1959),
• Ralph Dorfman (1911-1985)
• Jennifer Doudna,
• Alexander Dounce (1909-1997),
• Gideon Dreyfuss,
• Jack Cecil Drummond FRS (1891–1952)
• Christian de Duve, (1917-2013), awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1974
• Richard H. Ebright
• John Tileston Edsall (1902-2002)
• Konstantin Efetov, (b. 1958)
• Gertrude B. Elion (1918-1999), awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Terry Elton
• Conrad Elvehjem (1901-1962)
• Gladys Anderson Emerson (1903-1984).
• Akira Endo
• Donald Engelman
• Earl Evans (1910-1999)
• Richard D. Feinman (b. 1940)
• David Sidney Feingold (b. 1922)
• John D. Ferry, (born 1912)
• Edmond H. Fischer (b. 1920), awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Louis B. Flexner (1902-1996)
• John Flynn
• Otto Folin (1867-1934)
• Karl August Folkers (1906-1997)
• Bent Formby
• Sidney W. Fox (1912-1998)
• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999)
• Rosalind Franklin, (1920–1958)
• Perry A. Frey (b. 1935)
• William H. Frey
• Irwin Fridovich (b. 1929)
• Joseph S. Fruton, (1912-2007)
• Kazimierz Funk, (1884–1967)
• Robert F. Furchgott (1916-2009), awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Elmer L. Gaden
• Duane Gish (1921-2013)
• Alberto Granado, (1922-2011)
• Merrill Garnett, (b. 1931)
• Michael H. Gelb, (b. 1957)
• Susan Gerbi, (b. 1944)
• Jonathan Gershenzon
• William John Gies, (1872-1956)
• Walter Gilbert, (b. 1932), awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Martin Glennie, (born 1956)
• Theodore Nicolas Gobley (1811-1876)
• Silvia Gold
• Edward D. Goldberg, (1921-2008)
• Joseph L. Goldstein, (b. 1940), awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Eugene Goldwasser, (1922-2010)
• Michael M. Gottesman, (b. 1946)
• Alberto Granado
• Sam Granick, (1909-1977)
• David E. Green, (1910–1983)
• Lewis Joel Greene, (b. 1934)
• Walter Greiling, (1900–1986)
• Mark Griep, (b. 1959)
• Frederick Griffith, (1879–1941)
• Charles Grisham
• Kun-Liang Guan, (b. 1963)
• F. Peter Guengerich
• Irwin Gunsalus, (1912-2008)
• Osamu Hayaishi
• John Scott Haldane, (1860–1936)
• Marshall Hatch
• Pehr Harbury
• Arthur Harden, (1865–1940)
• Norman Heatley (1911-2004)
• Virginia Heinlein
• Ari Helenius
• Max Henius (1859-1935)
• Dorothy Hodgkin, (1910–1994), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins, (1861–1947)
• Oleh Hornykiewicz
• Lin HsiangJu
• Wayne L. Hubbell, (born 1943)
• Robert Huber
• Harvey Itano (1920-2010)
• Jill James
• Zheng Ji, (1900–2010)
• Herman Kalckar, (1908–1991)
• Sir Bernard Katz (1911–2003), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1970
• Stuart Alan Kauffman, (born 1939)
• Roy Keenan
• John Kendrew, (1917–1997)
• Sir Ernest Kennaway, (1881–1958)
• Aila Keto, (born 1943)
• Rashad Khalifa (1935-1990)
• Antony Kidman, (1938-2014)
• Laura L. Kiessling
• Charles Glen King (1896–1988)
• Arthur Kornberg, (1918–2007)
• Sir Hans Kornberg, (born 1928)
• Roger D. Kornberg
• Thomas B. Kornberg
• Sia Koroma
• Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. (1911–1996)
• Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, (1900–1981), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1953
• Michael Kunis
• Marc Lacroix (b. 1963)
• José Francisco LaFuente
• Nick Lane
• Henry A. Lardy
• Mary Ann Leeper
• David Lester (1916-1990)
• Phoebus Levene, (1869–1940)
• Choh Hao Li (1913–1987)
• Cecilia Liu
• Michael Love
• Shannon Lucid
• John James Rickard Macleod, (1876–1935), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923
• Thaddeus Mann, (1908–1993)
• Emanuel Margoliash (1920-2008)
• Michael Marletta
• Harden M. McConnell, (born 1927)
• Elmer Verner McCollum (1879-1967)
• Lafayette Mendel (1872-1935)
• Maude Menten, (1879–1960)
• Karl Meyer (1889-1990)
• Otto Fritz Meyerhof
• Friedrich Miescher, (1844–1895)
• Peter D. Mitchell, (1920–1992), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1978
• Leonor Michaelis, (1875–1949)
• César Milstein, (1927–2002)
• Jacques Monod, (1910–1976), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1965
• Kary Mullis, (born 1944), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1993
• Natalya Murashkevish
• Elmer Verner McCollum (1879–1967)
• David Nachmansohn, (1899–1983)
• Joseph Needham, (1900—1995)
• Carl Neuberg, (1877–1956)
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg, (born 1927)
• Paul Nurse, (born 1949)
• Eva J. Neer, (1937-2000)
• Young-Nam Oh
• Frank Olson, (1910–1953)
• Alexander Oparin, (1894-1980)
• Mary Jane Osborn (born 1927)
• Norman R. Pace
• Jakub Karol Parnas, (1884–1949)
• Linus Pauling, (1901–1994), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954
• Louis Pasteur, (1822–1895)
• Max Perutz, (1914–2002), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964
• Samuel Victor Perry (1918–2009)
• George Petersen
• David Andrew Phoenix, (Born 1966)
• Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907-1990)
• Judah Hirsch Quastel, (1899–1987)
• R. Rajalakshmi (1926–2007)
• Mila Rechcigl
• David Rittenberg, (1906–1970)
• Jane S. Richardson, (1941– )
• Martin Rodbell (1925-1998)
• Wendell L. Roelofs
• William Sampson (1959-2012)
• Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)
• Gottfried Schatz
• Rudolph Schoenheimer (1898–1941)
• Nadrian Seeman
• Cecilia Schelin Seidegard
• Raj Shankar, (1947–2000)
• William Sharp
• Anatoly Sharpenak, (1895–1969)
• John Shine
• Alexander Shulgin, (Born 1925)
• Karl Slotta, (1895–1987)
• Brian Sparkes (1941-2011)
• Martin Speiss
• Donald F. Steiner, (1930-2014)
• Ernest Sym
• Warren Tate
• Robert Tijan
• Arne Tiselius, (1902–1971), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1948
• Eugene H. Trinh
• Roger Y. Tsien
• Barbara Gene Veit Hartl
• Evangelina Villegas
• Angela Vincent,
• Frederic Vester, (1925–2003)
• John Craig Venter, (born 1946)
• Selman Waksman, (1888–1973)
• Christopher T. Walsh
• James C. Wang, (b. 1938)
• Xiaodong Wang, (b. 1963)
• Lewis W. Wannamaker, (1924-1983)
• Lancelot Ware (1915-2000)
• Arieh Warshel, (b. 1940), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013
• James D. Watson, (born 1928)
• Harold Dadford West, (1904-1974)
• Mark Whitacre
• Thomas Whitfield
• Peggy Whitson
• William T. Wickner, (b. 1946)
• Maurice Wilkins, (1916–2004)
• Allan Charles Wilson, (1934-1991)
• Greg Winter
• Christine Coe Winterburn
• Friedrich Wöhler, (1810–1882)
• Felisa Wolfe-Simon
• Richard Wolfenden, (b. 1935)
• Harland G. Wood (1907-1991)
• Hang Yin, (b. 1976)
• Donald Zilversmit, (1919-2010)

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