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Robert Tycko
Robert Tycko, also published as R. Tycko, is an American biophysical chemist at the NIH's NIDDK who uses solid-state NMR to determine the structures of amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease.
Robin Hill (plant biochemist)
Robin Hill (1899–1991) was a British plant biochemist who spent his career in Cambridge, discovered the Hill reaction showing that isolated chloroplasts produce oxygen, and proposed the Z-scheme of photosynthesis with F. L. Bendall in 1960.
Roger J. Williams
Roger J. Williams (1893–1988) was an American biochemist at the University of Texas at Austin whose laboratory discovered several B vitamins, including pantothenic acid and folic acid.
Rowena Green Matthews
Rowena Green Matthews is an American biochemist at the University of Michigan known for her work on folate and vitamin B12 enzyme mechanisms, especially methionine synthase.
Rudolph John Anderson
Rudolph John Anderson (1879–1961) was a Swedish-born American biochemist, professor of chemistry at Yale, best known for his chemical studies of the lipids of the tubercle bacillus.
Sidney F. Velick
Sidney F. Velick (1913–2007) was an American biochemist known for fluorescence studies of how enzymes bind coenzymes and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.
Sidney P. Colowick
Sidney P. Colowick (1916–1985) was an American biochemist who worked on glucose metabolism, described hexokinase and NADH's structure, and co-founded the reference series Methods in Enzymology.
Stanley J. Opella
Stanley J. Opella is a chemist at the University of California, San Diego, known for developing solid-state NMR methods that determine membrane protein structures in lipid bilayers.
Thomas C. Bruice
Thomas C. Bruice (1925–2019) was an American bioorganic chemist, a term he coined, known for work on how enzymes accelerate reactions, spent mostly at UC Santa Barbara.
W. Wallace Cleland
W. Wallace Cleland was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who set the framework for modern enzyme kinetics and pioneered isotope-effect studies of enzyme mechanisms.
Walter Jennings Jones
Walter Jennings Jones (1865–1935) was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins University who spent his career on the chemistry of the nucleic acids and wrote the monograph Nucleic Acids.
Walter Kauzmann
Walter Kauzmann (1916–2009) was an American physical chemist, the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry at Princeton, who proposed the hydrophobic effect driving protein folding and Kauzmann's entropy paradox.
William Cumming Rose
William Cumming Rose (1887–1985) was an American biochemist at the University of Illinois who discovered threonine and established which amino acids are essential in the human diet.
William M. Clark
William M. Clark was an American biochemist and DeLamar Professor at Johns Hopkins who first used "buffer" and "pH" in a 1915 paper, then measured oxidation-reduction potentials of organic dyes.
William Platt Jencks
William Platt Jencks (1927–2007) was an American biochemist at Brandeis University regarded as a founding father of mechanistic enzymology, best known for his work on binding energy and the Circe effect.
Yoshihito Watanabe
Yoshihito Watanabe (渡辺 芳人) is a Japanese bioinorganic and chemical biologist known for redirecting cytochrome P450 enzymes with decoy molecules and building artificial metalloenzymes; he directs the Institute for Molecular Science.
Zacharias Dische
Zacharias Dische (1895–1988) was an American biochemist who discovered the first example of feedback inhibition, the basic reaction of the pentose phosphate cycle, and the diphenylamine test for DNA sugars.