- Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a crystallographer, molecular biologist, and medical researcher. Pauling is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to chemistry, and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work describing the nature of chemical bonds.
- Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman.
- Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series.
- Michael Denton
Michael John Denton (born 25 August, 1943) is a British-Australian biochemist who is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Denton is the author of "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis" and "Nature's Destiny", the former book was instrumental in starting the intelligent design movement. Denton has been a strong proponent of intelligent design and is a former Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, …
- Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg (born March 3, 1918) is an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)" together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University. He has also been awarded the Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, …
- Christian de Duve
Christian René de Duve is an internationally acclaimed cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames-Ditton, Britain, as a son of Belgian emigrants. They returned to Belgium in 1920. De Duve was educated by the Jesuits at Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege in Antwerp, before studying at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he became a professor in 1947. He specialized in subcellular biochemistry and cell biology and discovered peroxisomes and lysosomes, cell organelles.
- Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American physicist, biochemist,and molecular biology pioneer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated at the Sidwell Sunny School, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, later joining the faculty at Harvard. Together with Allan Maxam he developed a new DNA sequencing method.
- Peter Walter
Peter Walter is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from the Free University of Berlin, an M.S. degree in organic chemistry from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Rockefeller University. He is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
- Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Dr Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences. Dr Mullis subsequently was awarded the Japan Prize that same year.
- Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is a theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher, who has given much thought to the origin of life on Earth. He is best known for arguing that the complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as much from self-organization and far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from Darwinian natural selection.
- Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS (born 13 August 1918) is an English biochemist and a two times Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is the fourth person in the world to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes (first three were Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen), and the only person to receive both in chemistry.
- Mario Capecchi
Mario Capecchi , Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Co-Chairman of Human Genetics Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Duane Gish
Duane Tolbert Gish (born February 17 1921) is an American biochemist, a young Earth creationist, former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research, and debator of evolutionary scientists. Gish is one of the most prominent and outspoken members of the creationist movement.
- Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O. Brown M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of biochemistry at Stanford University. He got his B.S., M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research uses DNA microarrays to study the gene expression patterns associated with especially cancer. He became an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1988, and joined the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
- Carl Neuberg
Carl Alexander Neuberg (1877-1956) was an early pioneer in biochemistry, and often referred to as the Father of Biochemistry. He was the first editor of the journal "Biochemische Zeitschrift". This journal was founded in 1906 and is now known as the "FEBS Journal". Neuberg was born in Hanover, Germany and studied chemistry at the University of Berlin. In his early work in Germany, he worked on solubility and transport in cells, …
- Axel Ullrich
Axel Ullrich born October 19, 1943) Lauban, Schlesien, Germany in is an German cancer researcher and has been the Director of Molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. His research has primarily focused on signal transduction. After taking a degree in biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in Molecular Genetics in 1975.
- Barry Sears
Barry Sears is a biochemist and nutrition scientist. He is most popular for creating and promoting the Zone diet, a diet aimed at achieving stable blood sugar levels and hormonal balance. The diet, Sears has stated in several of his books, was born of his desire to avoid dying of a heart attack, a fate that all other men in his family had been victims of. In more recent years, …
- Thomas Cech
Thomas Robert Cech (December 8, 1947 in Chicago) is a Nobel Laureate in chemistry. He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1966, he entered Grinnell College where he obtained a B.A. in 1970. In 1975, Cech completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and in the same year, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge where he engaged in postdoctoral research.
- Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens solely composed of protein. For his prion research he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997.
- Mae-Wan Ho
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho is a noted and controversial holistic scientist and a critic of genetic engineering. Her career spans more than 30 years in research and teaching in biochemistry, evolution, molecular genetics, and biophysics. She is the Co-Founder and Director of the UK-based Institute of Science in Society. She is former head of the Bio-Electrodynamics laboratory at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England. She is Editor of the radical science magazine, …
- Paul D. Boyer
Paul Delos Boyer (b. July 31, 1918) is an U.S. biochemist. He is one of the laureates for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of A.T.P." Boyer was born in Provo, Utah. He attended Provo High School, where he was active in student government and the debating team. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young in 1939 and obtained a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Scholarship for graduate studies.
- Arthur M. Lesk
Arthur M. Lesk, is a researcher and author, predominantly in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology. Along with Karl D. Hardman, Lesk wrote the first computer program for generating the schematic diagram of protein structure. It is known to produce one of the most effective representations of the protein structures and employs the classification scheme for Ribbon Diagrams created by Jane Richardson.
- Udo Erasmus
Udo Erasmus is a nutritionist, lecturer, and writer specializing in fats, oils, cholesterol, and essential fatty acids. He was born in Poland during the Second World War to parents from Latvia and Estonia. His family emigrated to Canada when he was ten years old. He began his university studies at the age of sixteen, and gained a B.Sc. in Zoology with a major in Psychology.
- Susan Lindquist
Susan Lindquist (born 5 June 1949) is a well-known molecular biologist studying (among other things) the effects of protein folding and heat-shock proteins. Lindquist is a member and former Director of the Whitehead Institute. Lindquist is best known for her research that provided strong evidence for a new paradigm in genetics based upon the inheritance of proteins with new, self-perpetuating shapes rather than new DNA sequences.
- Nick Anthis
Nicholas Jay "Nick" Anthis (b. 1982) is an American biophysicist and science blogger. Since 2005, he has studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, working toward a D.Phil. in biochemistry. His blog, The Scientific Activist, gained international recognition in February 2006 when Anthis published information on his blog that led to the prompt resignation of Bush Administration NASA appointee George Deutsch. Nick Anthis was born in Fort Worth, Texas, …
- Ford Doolittle
Dr. W. Ford Doolittle (born 1942 in Urbana, Illinois) is a biochemist. As of 2005, he is a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He received his BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University in 1963 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1967. Since joining the biochemistry department at Dalhousie in 1971, Dr. Doolittle has made significant contributions to the study of cyanobacteria, …
- Chi-Huey Wong
Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwan-born biochemist and Ernest W Hahn Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in The Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla, California. His expertise is synthetic chemistry and organic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate biochemistry and chemical proteomics. He was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Science in 2002 and an academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1994, respectively.
- Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 - December 29 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine.
- Steven Rose
Steven P. Rose (born July 4 1938 in London, United Kingdom) is a Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London. Rose studied biochemistry at King's College, University of Cambridge and neurobiology at Cambridge and the Institute of Psychiatry. His research focuses on the biological processes involved in memory formation and treatments for Alzheimer's Disease.
- Allan Wilson
Allan Wilson (1934-1991) was a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies. He was one of the most controversial figures in post-war biology; his work attracted a great deal of attention both from within, and outside, the academic world. Allan Wilson was born in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand, and raised on a farm at Helvetia, Pukekohe. He attended King's College in Auckland and excelled in maths and chemistry.
- Christian B. Anfinsen
Dr. Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. (March 26, 1916 - May 14, 1995) was a biochemist and a 1972 Nobel Prize winner for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma). Anfinsen was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania to a Norwegian American family. He earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1937, …
- Henry Lee
Dr. Henry Chang-Yu Lee, is one of the world's foremost forensic scientists. Lee was born in Rugao city, Jiangsu province, China, and fled to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War when he was six. He graduated in 1960 from the Taiwan Central Police College with a degree in Police Science. Lee then began his work with the Taipei Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain at age 22, the youngest in Chinese history.
- F. Peter Guengerich
Dr. F. Peter Guengerich is a professor of biochemistry and the director of the Center in Molecular Toxicology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Guengerich is the author or co-author of over 500 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is one of the most highly-cited researchers in toxicology in the world, known for his work on cytochromes P450, DNA damage and carcinogenesis, and drug metabolism. In 2005 he received the William C. Rose award for his research.
- Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn (b. December 3 1900, Vienna, Austria - d. August 1 1967, Heidelberg, Germany) was an Austrian-German biochemist and Nobel laureate.
- Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz FRS (March 26, 1911 - April 20, 2003) was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970. Born in Leipzig to a Jewish family, Germany, he was educated at the Albert Gymnasium in that city from 1921 to 1929 and went on to study medicine at the University of Leipzig.
- Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar, has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Sancar completed his M.D. in İstanbul University of Turkey and completed his Ph.D. on the photoreactivating enzyme of E. coli in 1977 in the lab of Dr. C. Stan Rupert, now Professor Emeritus. Aziz Sancar is presently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- César Milstein
César Milstein was an Argentine-born scientist who spent most of his life in Great Britain. His major field of research was antibodies. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler. Milstein was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
- Gerty Cori
Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz was an American biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) - a derivative of glucose - is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.
- Harry Gray
Harry Barkus Gray is currently the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. He received his B. S. from Western Kentucky University (1957) and his Ph.D. in 1960 with Fred Basolo at Northwestern University. Professor Gray's interdisciplinary research program addresses a wide range of fundamental problems in inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics.
- Selman Waksman
Selman Abraham Waksman (22 July 1888 - 16 August 1973) was an Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances-largely into organisms that live in soil-and their decomposition lead to the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers University for four decades, …