biochemist

/ˌbaɪoʊˈkɛmɪst/
/baɪəʊˈkɛmɪst/
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Definitions of biochemist
  1. noun
    someone with special training in biochemistry
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    Sir Ernst Boris Chain
    British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
    Francis Henry Compton Crick
    English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
    Casimir Funk
    United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
    Sir Walter Norman Haworth
    English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950)
    George Herbert Hitchings
    United States biochemist noted for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout (1905-1998)
    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
    English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)
    Francois Jacob
    French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
    Edward Calvin Kendall
    United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972)
    Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
    English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981)
    Fritz Albert Lipmann
    United States biochemist (born in Germany) noted for his studies of metabolic processes (1899-1986)
    Otto Fritz Meyerhof
    United States biochemist (born in Germany) who studied the metabolism of muscles (1884-1951)
    Jacques Lucien Monod
    French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)
    John Howard Northrop
    United States biochemist (1891-1987)
    Severo Ochoa
    United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993)
    Max Ferdinand Perutz
    English biochemist (born in Austria); studied the molecular structure of blood (1914-2002)
    Frederick Sanger
    English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)
    Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
    United States biochemist (born in Hungary) who was the first to isolate vitamin C (1893-1986)
    Edward Lawrie Tatum
    United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975)
    Otto Heinrich Warburg
    German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical techniques in biological investigations; noted for studies of cellular respiration (1883-1970)
    Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
    English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004)
    types:
    enzymologist
    a person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology
    type of:
    chemist
    a scientist who specializes in chemistry
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