English > biochemist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone with special training in biochemistry. |
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| Instances | Chain, Ernst Boris Chain, 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) |
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| Crick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick | English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure / structure of DNA (1916-2004) |
| Funk, 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) |
| Haworth, Sir Walter Norman Haworth | English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates |
| Hitchings, George Herbert Hitchings | United States biochemist noted for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout (1905-1998) |
| Hopkins, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins | English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947) |
| Jacob, Francois Jacob | French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920) |
| Kendall, Edward Kendall, Edward Calvin Kendall | United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972) |
| Krebs, Hans Adolf Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf Krebs | English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981) |
| Lipmann, Fritz Albert Lipmann | United States biochemist (born in Germany) noted for his studies / studies of metabolic processes (1899-1986) |
| Meyerhof, Otto Meyerhof, Otto Fritz Meyerhof | United States biochemist (born in Germany) who studied the metabolism of muscles (1884-1951) |
| Monod, Jacques Monod, Jacques Lucien Monod | French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976) |
| Northrop, John Howard Northrop | United States biochemist (1891-1987) |
| Ochoa, Severo Ochoa | United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993) |
| Perutz, Max Perutz, Max Ferdinand Perutz | English biochemist (born in Austria) |
| Sanger, Frederick Sanger, Fred 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) |
| Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi | United States biochemist (born in Hungary) who was the first to isolate vitamin C (1893-1986) |
| Tatum, Edward Lawrie Tatum | United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975) |
| Warburg, Otto Heinrich Warburg | German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical techniques in biological investigations |
| Wilkins, Maurice Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins | English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004) |
| Narrower | enzymologist | A person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology |
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| Broader | chemist | A scientist who specializes in chemistry |
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| Spanish | bioquímico |
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| Catalan | bioquímic |
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| Nouns | biochemistry | the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms |
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