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| Christian Anfinsen |
Chemist |
26-Mar-1916 |
14-May-1995 |
Protein structure and folding |
| Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
| Werner Arber |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1929 |
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Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
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Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
| Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1930 |
3-May-2014 |
Human Capital |
| Pope Benedict XVI |
Religion |
16-Apr-1927 |
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Pope Emeritus |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
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Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Sune K. Bergström |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1916 |
15-Aug-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| Günter Blobel |
Scientist |
21-May-1936 |
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Protein signaling in cells |
| Aage N. Bohr |
Physicist |
19-Jun-1922 |
8-Sep-2009 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
| Niels Bohr |
Physicist |
7-Oct-1885 |
18-Nov-1962 |
Father of Quantum Theory |
| Alexis Carrel |
Doctor |
28-Jun-1873 |
5-Nov-1944 |
Sutured blood vessels |
| James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
Physicist |
1-Apr-1933 |
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Trapped atoms with laser light |
| Paul J. Crutzen |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1933 |
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Ozone depletion |
| Peter Debye |
Physicist |
24-Mar-1884 |
2-Nov-1966 |
Studied molecular structure, dipoles |
| Paul Dirac |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1902 |
20-Oct-1984 |
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
| Christian de Duve |
Scientist |
2-Oct-1917 |
4-May-2013 |
Microstructure of the cell |
| John Eccles |
Scientist |
27-Jan-1903 |
2-May-1997 |
Membrane potential of nerves |
| Manfred Eigen |
Physicist |
9-May-1927 |
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Studied fast chemical reactions |
| Alexander Fleming |
Scientist |
6-Aug-1881 |
11-Mar-1955 |
Discovered penicillin |
| Kenichi Fukui |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1918 |
9-Jan-1998 |
Frontier orbitals |
| Galileo Galilei |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1564 |
8-Jan-1642 |
Copernican observational astronomer |
| Otto Hahn |
Chemist |
8-Mar-1879 |
28-Jul-1968 |
Demonstrated fission |
| Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
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Wheelchair-bound physicist |
| Werner Heisenberg |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1901 |
1-Feb-1976 |
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
| Gerhard Herzberg |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
| Victor Francis Hess |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1883 |
17-Dec-1964 |
Proved cosmic origin of radiation |
| George de Hevesy |
Chemist |
1-Aug-1885 |
5-Jul-1966 |
Radioisotope researcher |
| Raymond Hide |
Physicist |
17-May-1929 |
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Earth's rotation |
| Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
The Kinetics of Chemical Change |
| H. Gobind Khorana |
Scientist |
9-Jan-1922 |
9-Nov-2011 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Klaus von Klitzing |
Physicist |
28-Jun-1943 |
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Quantization of resistance |
| Max von Laue |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1879 |
23-Apr-1960 |
X-ray crystallography |
| Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
| Tsung-Dao Lee |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1926 |
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Violations of parity law |
| Yuan T. Lee |
Chemist |
29-Nov-1936 |
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Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Jean-Marie Lehn |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1939 |
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Synthesis of molecules |
| Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini |
Scientist |
22-Apr-1909 |
30-Dec-2012 |
Nerve and skin cell growth factors |
| Guglielmo Marconi |
Scientist |
25-Apr-1874 |
20-Jul-1937 |
Inventor of radio |
| Mario J. Molina |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1943 |
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Ozone depletion |
| William W. Morgan |
Astronomer |
3-Jan-1906 |
21-Jun-1994 |
Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy |
| Rudolf Mössbauer |
Physicist |
31-Jan-1929 |
14-Sep-2011 |
Discovered Mössbauer effect |
| Marshall W. Nirenberg |
Scientist |
10-Apr-1927 |
15-Jan-2010 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Ryoji Noyori |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1938 |
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Chiral catalysts |
| George E. Palade |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1912 |
7-Oct-2008 |
Microstructure of the cell |
| Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
| William D. Phillips |
Physicist |
5-Nov-1948 |
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Trapped atoms with laser light |
| Max Planck |
Physicist |
23-Apr-1858 |
4-Oct-1947 |
Originator of quantum theory |
| John C. Polanyi |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1929 |
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Infrared chemiluminescence |
| George Porter |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1920 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Rapid chemical and biological processes |
| C. N. R. Rao |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1934 |
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Chemistry of superconductivity |
| Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
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President of the Royal Society |
| Carlo Rubbia |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1934 |
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Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
| Vera Rubin |
Astronomer |
23-Jul-1928 |
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Structure of galaxies |
| Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
| Abdus Salam |
Physicist |
29-Jan-1926 |
21-Nov-1996 |
Electroweak Theory |
| Allan R. Sandage |
Astronomer |
18-Jun-1926 |
13-Nov-2010 |
Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars |
| Erwin Schrödinger |
Physicist |
12-Aug-1887 |
4-Jan-1961 |
Schrödinger's wave equation |
| Kai M. Siegbahn |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1918 |
20-Jul-2007 |
Electron spectroscopy |
| Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
27-Jan-2015 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Artturi Virtanen |
Chemist |
15-Jan-1895 |
11-Nov-1973 |
AIV method of fodder preservation |
| Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
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String theorist at Princeton |
| Chen Ning Yang |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1922 |
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Particle physicist |
| Hideki Yukawa |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1907 |
8-Sep-1981 |
Predicted existence of mesons |
| Ahmed H. Zewail |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1946 |
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Femtochemistry |
