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Salih J. Wakil
Salih J. Wakil (1927–2019) was an Iraqi-born American biochemist at Baylor College of Medicine who discovered acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase, key enzymes of fatty acid synthesis.
Sam Granick
Sam Granick (1909–1977) was an American biochemist who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute, known for work on ferritin, chloroplast structure, and the biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll.
Sander J. Tans
Sander J. Tans is a biophysicist who leads the biophysics group at AMOLF in Amsterdam and is a professor at Delft University of Technology, studying protein folding.
Sanford A. Asher
Sanford A. Asher was an American physical and analytical chemist at the University of Pittsburgh who pioneered ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy and invented photonic crystal hydrogel chemical sensors.
Sara Linse
Sara Linse is a Swedish biochemist and professor at Lund University known for research on protein–nanoparticle interactions and the mechanism of amyloid fibrillation linked to Alzheimer's disease.
Sarah A. Woodson
Sarah A. Woodson is the T.C. Jenkins Professor of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University, whose laboratory's work on RNA folding and ribosome assembly earned her the 2023 Ignacio Tinoco Award.
Sarah Ratner
Sarah Ratner (1903–1999) was an American biochemist who worked out the enzymology of the urea cycle, discovered argininosuccinic acid, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Sarah Spiegel (biochemist)
Sarah Spiegel is an Israeli-trained American biochemist, professor and chair of biochemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, known for defining sphingosine-1-phosphate as a signaling lipid regulating immunity, inflammation, and cancer.
Satish K. Nair
Satish K. Nair is a biochemist and structural biologist who is Head of Biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studying the enzymes that build natural antibiotics.
Satoko Yoshizawa
Satoko Yoshizawa is a structural biologist and CNRS Director of Research at ENS Paris-Saclay, France, first author of the 1999 Science paper on how the ribosome reads the genetic code.
Saul Roseman
Saul Roseman (1921–2011) was an American biochemist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for establishing the structures of the sialic acids and co-discovering the bacterial sugar phosphotransferase system.
Scott A. Strobel
Scott A. Strobel is an American biochemist at Yale University, where he has served as provost since 2020 and is known for structural studies of RNA catalysis.
Scott C. Blanchard
Scott C. Blanchard is a biophysicist and Endowed Chair at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, known for single-molecule imaging of ribosomes and the 2025 Kazuhiko Kinosita Award.
Scott Horowitz
Scott Horowitz is an American biochemist and Associate Professor at the University of Denver who studies molecular chaperones and showed that RNA can act as a protein chaperone.
Scott J. Miller
Scott J. Miller, born 1966 in Buffalo, New York, is an American organic chemist and Sterling Professor at Yale known for peptide catalysts for asymmetric, site-selective synthesis.
Scott R. Manalis
Scott R. Manalis is an MIT biological engineer who invented the suspended microchannel resonator, weighing single living cells with femtogram precision, and founded Travera and Affinity Biosensors.
Sebastian Deindl
Sebastian Deindl is a structural biologist and molecular biophysicist, professor at Uppsala University and, since 2026, Humboldt Professor at Tübingen, known for resolving how chromatin remodelers step and slide molecule by molecule.
Sebastian Klinge
Sebastian Klinge is a structural biologist at Rockefeller University who studies how eukaryotic cells assemble ribosomes, and who in 2011 solved the first atomic structure of a eukaryotic large ribosomal subunit.
Seigo Shima
Seigo Shima (嶋 盛吾) is a biochemist and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, where he has worked since 1995.
Seiji Ogawa
Seiji Ogawa (小川誠二), born 1934 in Tokyo, is a Japanese biophysicist who discovered the BOLD contrast mechanism at Bell Laboratories in 1990, the basis of functional MRI.
Selig Hecht
Selig Hecht (1892–1947) was an American biophysicist and professor at Columbia University who established the duplex retina and showed a single rod can respond to one photon.
Senyon Choe
Senyon Choe is a structural biologist who uses X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy to determine the structures of ion channels, membrane proteins, and the TGF-beta receptor system.
Seok-Yong Lee
Seok-Yong Lee is a structural biologist at Duke University School of Medicine who studies membrane proteins and ion channels, known for his 2022 Nature structures of the folate carrier SLC19A1.
Sergey M. Bezrukov
Sergey M. Bezrukov, also published as S. M. Bezrukov, is a Russian-trained biophysicist who has led the Section on Molecular Transport at NIH since 2002.
Seth A. Darst
Seth A. Darst is an American structural biologist who heads the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at Rockefeller University, known for crystal structures of bacterial RNA polymerase and SARS-CoV-2 polymerase work.
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-born American biochemist who won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the enzyme polynucleotide phosphorylase, which synthesizes RNA.
Seymour Jonathan Singer
Seymour Jonathan Singer, often published as S. Jonathan Singer, was an American biochemist at UC San Diego best known for the fluid mosaic model of cell membranes, proposed in 1972.
Seymour Kaufman
Seymour Kaufman (1924–2009) was an American biochemist and neurochemist at the National Institute of Mental Health who identified tetrahydrobiopterin as the cofactor for aromatic amino acid hydroxylation.
Shashi Petry
Shashi Petry is a structural biologist, first author of the 2005 Cell study solving ribosome structures with release factors RF1 and RF2, cited in the Nobel Committee's 2009 chemistry background.
Sheena E. Radford
Sheena E. Radford is a British biochemist and biophysicist who is Astbury Professor of Biophysics at the University of Leeds, studying protein folding and amyloid disease.