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. Note that the definition of biochemist is fairly loose here, and noted biological chemists, biophysists and others are included.

The format for each entry is:

• Name, (birth-death), Nationality, optional brief reason for fame - maybe including link.

A

• Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992), Russian-born American, prolific author.
• John E. Amoore British Biochemist who postulated the stereochemical theory of smell in 1952.

B

• Michael Behe, (born c.1950?), ?, Irreducible complexity (not a biochemical theory)
• Konrad Emil Bloch, (1912-2000), German-American, 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Adrian Brown, pioneer in enzyme kinetics
• Eduard Buchner, (1860-1917), German, 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry see Zymology
• Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968), Swedish, composer and conductor.
• Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893 - 1970), Soviet 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.

D

• Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895-1976), Danish, 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Sergi Durmishidze (1910-1989), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry
• Revaz Dogonadze, (1931-1985), Georgian, Co-author of the Quantum-Mechanical Model of Enzyme Catalysis
• Christian de Duve, (born 1917), British-born Belgian, 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
• Ciara Dowling Conjugation of Progesterone and its Purification

E

El-Halfawi, M. H. Egyptian Professor of soil biochemistry

F

• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, (1910-1999), Polish, viral research.
• Kazimierz Funk, (1884-1967), Polish, see Vitamin

G

• Walter Gilbert, (born 1932), American, 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry see Biogen
• Duane Gish, (???), ???, see Institute for Creation Research.
• Varlam Gvaladze, (1893-1944), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry

H

• John Haldane, (?-?), British
• Dorothy Hodgkin, (1910-1994), British, Crystallographer 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in determining the structure of important biochemical molecules.
• Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, 1861-1947, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins.

K

• 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 Hans Kornberg, (born 1928), British. Microbial biochemistry
• Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, (1900-1981), German, 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine see Krebs cycle
• George Kvesitadze (born 1942), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology

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.
• Bruce McConnell (born 1933) American Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Maude Menten, of Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics fame
• Peter Mitchell, British, 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Leonor Michaelis, enzyme kineticist
• 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

N

• Joseph Needham (1900—1995), British
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

O

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

P

• Linus Pauling, (1901-1994) American, 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Louis Pasteur, (1822-1895), French, Pioneer in microbiology
• Max Perutz, (1914-2002), British, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for solving the crystal structure of hemoglobin

Q

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

R

• David Rittenberg, (1906-1970), US, pioneer of radioactive tagging of molecules

S

• Rudolph Schoenheimer (1898 - 1941), German/ US, pioneer of radioactive tagging of molecules
• Rupert Sheldrake, (born 1942), British, biologist and author.
• Raj Shankar, (1947-2000), Indian , Neuro Biochemist, Work on Cerebral Metabolism, Protein phosphorylation in brain and Signal Transduction .

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.
• D M Vasudevan

W

• Selman Waksman, (1888-1973), Russian, biochemist.
• Friedrich Wöhler, (1810-1882), German, chemist.