List of biochemists

Articles about notable biochemists include:

A

• John E. Amoore, British, Biochemist who postulated the stereochemical theory of olfaction in 1952.
• Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University
• William Astbury, (1898–1961), British, pioneer in applying X-ray crystallography to biological molecules such as proteins

B

• Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893–1970), USSR, chemist/biophysicist, Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.
• 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)
• Dean Burk (1904–1988), American, co-discoverer of biotin.

C

• Robert Corey, (1897–1971), American, co-discoverer of the alpha helix and beta sheet
• 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.
• Robert K. Crane, (born 1919), American, discovered sodium-glucose cotransport.
• 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

• David E. Green, (1910–1983) pioneer in the study of enzymes, particularly those involved in oxidative phosphorylation.
• Walter Greiling, (1900-1986), German, worked in the field of agricultural microbiology.
• 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

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
• Max Henius, (1859–1935) Danish-American Biochemist who specialized in the fermentation processes.

J

• Zheng Ji (1900–2010)

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
• Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. (1911–1996). Promoter of the ineffective cancer cures laetrile and pangamic acid
• 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 Rickard Macleod, (1876–1935), Scottish biochemist and physiologist, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovery of Insulin.
• Thaddeus Mann, (1908–1993), British reproductive biologist.
• Harden M. McConnell, (born 1927) American biochemist
• Maude Menten, (1879–1960) Canadian, early work on enzyme kinetics.
• Friedrich Miescher, (1844–1895) first scientist to isolate DNA
• Peter D. Mitchell, (1920–1992) British, 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Leonor Michaelis, (1875–1949) German, early work on enzyme kinetics.
• César Milstein, (1927–2002), Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.
• 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, (1910-1953), 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
• Samuel Victor Perry (1918–2009), British, pioneer in muscle research
• 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

• 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.

• Anatoly Sharpenak, (1895-1969), Russian, biochemist.

• 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.

See also

• List of geneticists
• List of Russian biochemists