List of biochemists

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This is a list of biochemists. It should include those who have been important to the development or practice of biochemistry. Their research or applications have made significant contributions in the area of basic or applied biochemistry.

A

Ab–Am

An–At

B

Ba–Be

Bi–Bo

Br

  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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  • Caltech
    in the discovery of the α-helix
  • Sydney Brenner (1927–2019). South African biochemist at Cambridge, and later Berkeley, known for work on the genetic code and more recently for establishing Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism. Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002)
  • Kenneth Breslauer (active from 1970). American biochemist at Rutgers University (born in Sweden of German parents), who has studied DNA damage and repair, including why certain mutations escape repair and result in cancer.
  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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  • Adrian John Brown FRS (1852–1920). British expert on brewing and malting at the University of Birmingham. He was a pioneer of enzyme kinetics and proposed an explanation of enzyme saturation.
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Bu

C

Ca–Ce

Ch–Cl

  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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  • Christopher Chang (b. 1974). American bioinorganic chemist at UC Berkeley. His research includes molecular imaging sensors for the study of redox biology.
  • Institut Pasteur
    . Originator of the allosteric model of cooperativity, but now known mainly for work in neuroscience.
  • Emmett Chappelle (1925–2019). American biochemist at NASA, known for using bioluminescence to develop a method of detecting ATP.
  • Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002). Austrian-American biochemist at Columbia, known for Chargaff's rules, according to the first of which the number of guanine units in DNA is equal to the number of cytosine units, and the number of adenine units is equal to the number of thymine units.
  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
  • Martha Chase (1927–2003). American geneticist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, famous for the Hershey–Chase experiment, which indicated that genetic information is held and transmitted by DNA, not by protein.
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  • Albert Chibnall FRS (1894–1988), British biochemist known for his work on the nitrogen metabolism of plants.
  • Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann (1954 – 2015), Swiss biochemist and cell biologist working on interactions in the extracellular matrix.
  • Cambridge
    known for work on protein structure.
  • Gilbert Chu (b. 1946). American biochemist at Stanford, known for investigating how cells react to DNA damage from radiation.
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  • Cambridge
    known for work on folding and assembly of proteins.
  • Steven Clarke (b. 1949). American biochemist at UCLA, known for work on molecular damage and molecular repair mechanisms.
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Co–Cu

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Da

De–Di

  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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  • Michael W. Deem. American biochemist and genetic engineer at Rice University, known for work in evolution, immunology, and materials.
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  • Université Catholique de Louvain
    , known for studies of hormone-receptor interaction of peptide hormones and the physiopathogenesis of diabetes.
  • Willey Glover Denis (1879–1929). American biochemist at Tulane University, a pioneer in clinical chemistry and the measurement of protein in biological fluids.
  • feedback inhibition
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  • Henry Berkeley Franks (Hal) Dixon (1928–2008). British enzymologist at the University of Cambridge.
  • Malcolm Dixon FRS (1899–1985). British biochemist at the University of Cambridge. Research on enzyme structure, kinetics, and properties. His book (with Edwin C. Webb) Enzymes was very influential.

Do–Du

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F

Fa–Fi

  • Leone N. Farrell (1904–1986). Canadian biochemist and microbiologist at Connaught Laboratories (Toronto) who discovered a way to isolate live virus in bulk quantities, sufficient for producing the polio vaccine.
  • Atkins Diet
    , and on application of thermodynamics to nutrition.
  • David Sidney Feingold (1922–2019). American biochemist at the University of Pittsburgh known for research on carbohydrates.
  • David Fell (b. 1947). British biochemist at Oxford Brookes University who has contributed to the development of systems biology. Author of Understanding the control of metabolism.
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Fl–Fu

  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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  • Karl August Folkers (1906–1997). American biochemist at Merck, known for work on the antibiotics cathomycin and cycloserine.
  • Ivar Asbjørn Følling (1888–1973). Norwegian biochemist and geneticist who first described phenylketonuria.
  • Sidney W. Fox (1912–1998). American biochemist at the University of Miami who worked on the production of amino acids in abiotic conditions.
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  • Birkbeck
    Colleges, London, who worked on the structure of DNA
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  • Kazimierz Funk (1884–1967). Polish-American biochemist at the Pasteur Institute, discoverer of vitamin B3 (niacin).
  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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G

Ga–Go

Gr–Gu

H

Ha–He

Hi–Hu

I

  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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J

  • Sophie E. Jackson (active from 1991). Biochemist at the University of Cambridge known for work on protein folding.
  • Leicester University
    , known for inventing genetic fingerprinting.
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  • Thomas H. Jukes (1906–1999). British-American biologist at UC Berkeley known for work in nutrition and molecular evolution. He was very active in denouncing pseudoscience.

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Ka–Ke

Kh-Kn

Ko–Ku

L

La–Lel

Lev–Ly

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Se–So

St–Sz

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  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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Wa

  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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  • Selman Waksman (1888–1973). Ukrainian-American biochemist at Rutgers University, known for discovering streptomycin and other antibiotics. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1952).
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  • Otto Heinrich Warburg FRS (foreign member) (1883–1970). German biochemist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Cell Physiology (Berlin), who pioneered the study of respiration. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1931).
  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
    . Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

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Wi–Wr

X

  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa
    , expert in application of magnetic resonance in biochemistry.

Y

  • Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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  • Cambridge University
    , where he was Sir William Dunn Professor for many years.
  • Harden–Young ester
    ” (fructose 1,6-bisphosphate).

Z

  • self-assembling peptides
    . Guggenheim Fellow and Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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See also

Scientists in fields close to biochemistry