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Born September 7, 1917 • Sussex • Sydney • Australia
Died December 8, 2013 (aged 96) • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1982) • Nobel Prize (1975)
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Sir Harold W. Kroto
British chemist
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Peter Dennis Mitchell
British chemist
Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist
Vladimir Prelog
Swiss chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Lindahl, Tomas
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
John B. Goodenough
American physicist
Georg Charles von Hevesy
Hungarian-Swedish chemist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist

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