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Alexander Nikolayevich Lebedev

Alexander Nikolayevich Lebedev (1869–1937) was a Russian biochemist.

Alexander Todd

Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd (1907–1997), Scottish biochemist and Nobel Prize winner

Asturian American

Severo Ochoa (September 24, 1905 - November 1, 1993), Asturian-born doctor and biochemist, joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg

Augustyn Wróblewski

Augustyn Wroblewski, of Ślepowron coat of arms (born 20 July 1866 in Vilnius, died after 1913) - Polish chemist and biochemist, author of the groundbreaking work in the field of yeast fermentation, theorist and proponent of anarchism, an activist in socialist organizations, journalist, lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Bernard L. Oser

Prior to receiving his doctorate, he worked during 1920-21 at Jefferson Medical College as an assistant in physiological chemistry and then worked during 1922-6 as a biochemist at Philadelphia General Hospital (both in Pennsylvania).

Brian David Dynlacht

Brian David Dynlacht (born September 3, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York ), is a Jewish-American biochemist and Professor in the Department of Pathology of New York University School of Medicine.

Büdragchaagiin Dash-Yondon

She was graduated from Moscow State University as a biochemist in 1970 and earned Ph.D in Chemical Science.

Byrchall High School

Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure of antibodies, Whitley Professor of Biochemistry from 1967-85 at the University of Oxford

Carbidopa/levodopa

In 1960 the Austrian biochemist Oleh Hornykiewicz, while at the University of Vienna, examined results of autopsies of patients who had died with Parkinson's disease.

Cortodoxone

On April 5, 1952, biochemist Durey Peterson and microbiologist Herbert Murray at Upjohn published the first report of a breakthrough fermentation process for the microbial 11α-oxygenation of steroids (e.g. progesterone) in a single step by common molds of the order Mucorales.

Crabtree effect

Named after the English biochemist Herbert Grace Crabtree, the Crabtree effect describes the phenomenon whereby the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, produces ethanol (alcohol) aerobically in the presence of high external glucose concentrations rather than producing biomass via the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, the usual process occurring aerobically in most yeasts e.g. Kluyveromyces spp.

Curcuma australasica

A medicine called Curcumall, an extract of turmeric and curcumin, was developed by an Israeli biochemist, Dr. Menahem Rabinovich.

Daniel Herschlag

Daniel Herschlag (born October 16, 1958) is an American biochemist and Professor of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dario Alessi

Dario Alessi FRSE FRS (born in France, 1967) is a biochemist, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) and Professor of Signal Transduction, at University of Dundee.

Darst

Seth Darst, American biochemist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences

Edith Körner

She was the wife of the philosopher Stephan Körner and mother of the mathematician Thomas Körner and the biochemist, writer and translator Ann M. Körner.

Elion

Gertrude B. Elion - American biochemist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Frank Young

Frank George Young (1908–1988), biochemist and first Master of Darwin College, Cambridge

Frölich Peak

The peak was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Theodor C.B. Frölich, a Norwegian biochemist who in 1907, with Axel Holst, first produced experimental scurvy and laid the foundations for later work on vitamins.

Gaden

Elmer L. Gaden, American biochemist and pioneer of biochemical engineering

Gerard Fairtlough

Born on Hayling Island, Hampshire, Fairtlough trained initially as a biochemist at Cambridge University.

Gowland

Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS (1861–1947), English biochemist awarded a Nobel Prize in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins

Gregory Charles Royal

The son of biochemist and microbiologist husband and wife team Gladys W. Royal and George C. Royal, Royal, who is described by Slide Hampton as "one of the important guys on the horn", grew up in Washington, DC.

Hans Krebs

Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), German-born British physician and biochemist

Harold Dadford West

Harold Dadford West (July 16, 1904 – March 5, 1974) was an American biochemist who was the first to synthesize threonine.

Haßfurt

Albert Neuberger FRS, an eminent Biochemist and Professor, was born here in 1908.

Heme A

Heme A was first isolated by the great German biochemist Otto Warburg in 1951 and shown by him to be the active component of the integral membrane metalloprotein cytochrome c oxidase.

Herbert Carter

H. E. Carter (Herbert Edmund Carter, 1910–2007), American biochemist and educator

Holst Point

It was first charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Axel Holst, a Norwegian biochemist who in 1907, with Theodor C.B. Frölich, first produced experimental scurvy and laid the foundations for later work on vitamins.

Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum

Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum, also known as John Louis William Thudichum (August 27, 1829, Büdingen – September 7, 1901) was a German-born physician and biochemist.

John Roan School

Sir Jack Drummond, biochemist who separated Vitamin A, and declared the chemicals that are now known as Vitamins A, B & C, and was murdered in France in 1952

Jordi Folch Pi

Jordi Folch Pi was a Catalan biochemist at Harvard University (McLean Hospital) who is recognized universally as one of the founders of the field of structural chemistry of complex lipids and as a leader in the development of Neurochemistry as a distinct discipline within the Neurosciences.

Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building

Biochemist, Benjamin R. Jacobs and his wife, Margaret Connell Jacobs, maintained a residence at the Kennedy-Warren.

Lourdes J. Cruz

Lourdes J. Cruz is a biochemist whose research has contributed to the understanding of the biochemistry of toxic peptides from the venom of fish-hunting Conus marine snails.

Luttwak

Leo Lutwak (1928–2006), American nutritionist, endocrinologist, and biochemist

Michael Creeth

James Michael Creeth (3 October 1924 – 15 January 2010) was an English biochemist whose experiments on DNA viscosity confirming the existence of hydrogen bonds between the purine and pyrimidine bases of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Mount Waugh

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for W.A. Waugh, American biochemist who, with Charles Glen King, first identified the antiscorbutic component from lemon juice, making possible the production of synthetic vitamin C to prevent scurvy, in 1932.

Ogston

Alexander George Ogston — biochemist specialised in the thermodynamics of biological systems

Ralph Holman

Ralph Holman (1917 – August 15, 2012) was a biochemist whose research focused on lipids and fatty acids, especially the Omega-3 fatty acid.

Roche Institute of Molecular Biology

The Roche Institute of Molecular Biology was created on July 14, 1967 when Jim Burns, then the vice president of research at Hoffman-La Roche, persuaded biochemist Sidney Udenfriend to leave the National Institutes of Health and help him create a basic science institute at the Hoffman-La Roche, Nutley, New Jersey facility.

Stefan Tytus Dąbrowski

Stefan Tytus Zygmunt Dąbrowski (1877–1947) of Radwan coat of arms – Physician, physiologist, biochemist, and Polish politician.

Stephan Körner

The couple had two children - Thomas, a professor of mathematics, and Ann, a biochemist, writer and translator, who married Sidney Altman, a professor at Yale University.

Stephen E. Harding

Stephen E. Harding (born August 2, 1955) is a British biochemist specialising in biomolecular hydrodynamics.

Surinder Vasal

He worked with biochemist Dr. Evangelina Villegas for 35 years to develop a protein enriched form of maize in the 1970s.

Thomas B. Kornberg

Thomas Bill Kornberg is an American biochemist who was the first person to purify and characterise DNA polymerase II and DNA polymerase III.

Victor Henri

Notably, his work was taken up by German biochemist Leonor Michaelis and Canadian physician Maud Menten.

Virginia Heinlein

Virginia "Ginny" Heinlein (April 22, 1916 – January 18, 2003), born Virginia Doris Gerstenfeld, was a chemist, biochemist, engineer, and the third wife of Robert A. Heinlein, a prominent and successful author once known as one of the "Big Three" of science fiction (along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke).


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