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, even if you have no information at hand for a biography. Note that the definition of biochemist is fairly loose here, and noted chemical biologists, biophysicists 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 of popular science, as well as science-fiction.
 * John E. Amoore British Biochemist who postulated the stereochemical theory of olfaction in 1952.

B

 * Konrad Emil Bloch, (1912-2000), German-American, 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Paul D. Boyer, studies on ATP synthase, won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1997
 * Adrian Brown, pioneer in enzyme kinetics
 * Eduard Buchner, (1860-1917), German, 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry see fermentation (biochemistry)
 * 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
 * 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
 * Sergi Durmishidze (1910-1989), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry
 * Christian de Duve, (born 1917), British-born Belgian, 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

E

 * El-Halfawi, M. H., Egyptian professor of soil biochemistry
 * Akira Endo, statins

F

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

G

 * Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist
 * David E. Green, (1910 - 1983) pioneer in the study of enzymes, particularly those involved in oxidative phosphorylation.
 * Walter Gilbert, (born 1932), American, 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, molecular biologist, see also Biogen
 * Duane Gish, (???), ???, see Institute for Creation Research.
 * Varlam Gvaladze, (1893-1944), Georgian, Plant Biochemistry

H

 * John Haldane, (1860-1936), Scottish physiologist.
 * Dorothy Hodgkin, (1910-1994), British founder of protein crystallography and Nobel Prize winner
 * Frederick Gowland Hopkins, 1861-1947, English Nobel Prize-winner for the discovery of vitamins
 * Wayne L. Hubbell American biochemist-pioneer of site-directed spin labeling

K

 * Herman Kalckar, 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.
 * Arthur Kornberg, 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
 * 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

L

 * Choh Hao Li (1913-1987) Known for discovering and synthesizing the human pituitary growth hormone.

M

 * David Nachmansohn, (1899-1983), German, responsible for elucidating the role of phosphocreatine in energy production in the muscles.
 * 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
 * Hardon M. McConnell, American biochemist
 * Alister McGrath (born 1953) British theologian
 * Maude Menten, of Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics fame
 * Peter Mitchell, British, 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Leonor Michaelis, early work on enzyme kinetics.
 * 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

 * Joseph Needham (1900—1995), British
 * Carl Neuberg, (1877-1956) early German pioneer in the study of metabolism.
 * 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

 * Jakub Karol Parnas, (1984-1949), 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

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
 * 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.


 * Alexander Shulgin, (Born 1925), Russian/American pharmacologist, popularized MDMA in America, and work with various psychoactive drugs

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.