Carl Woese

Carl Woese

male, 81 years old
Carl Richard Woese (born July 15 1928, Syracuse, New York) is an American microbiologist famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom...
Ada Yonath

Ada Yonath

female
Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. Born in Jerusalem, she is the director...

Peter Moore

male, 70 years old
Peter B. Moore (born October 15, 1939) is Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University....
Joan A. Steitz

Joan A. Steitz

female
Joan Argetsinger Steitz is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights...

George E. Fox

male, 64 years old
Professor George Edward Fox (born 1945) is a researcher at The University of Houston. Co-discoverer of Archaea, the third domain of life and the...
Jean Brachet

Jean Brachet

male, deceased (1998)
Jean Louis Auguste Brachet was a Belgian biochemist who made a key contribution in understanding the role of RNA. Brachet was born in Etterbeek and...

Hubert Chantrenne

male, 91 years old
Hubert Chantrenne (1918), a Belgian scientist, and one of the pioneers of molecular biology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He elucidated t...
John Shine

John Shine

male, 63 years old
Professor John Shine (born July 3 1946) is an Australian biochemist; he discovered the nucleotide sequence, called the Shine-Dalgarno sequence,...
Alexander Sergeevich Spirin

Alexander Sergeevich Spirin

male, 78 years old
Alexander Sergeevich Spirin (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Спирин) (born September 4, 1931) is a Russian biochemist, professor of Moscow Stat...

Jane Ribosome

male, 25 years old (Pitsburg, Mississippi, United States)