Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Biochemists, including Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Miescher, Yellapragada Subbarow, Gerhard Domagk and Gerty Cori.
Louis Pasteur27 December 1822, French
Chemist and Microbiologist
Gerty Cori15 August 1896, American
Biochemist
Selman Waksman22 July 1888, Ukrainian
Discoverer of Streptomycin
Heinrich Otto Wieland04 June 1877, German
Father of Biochemistry
Frederick Gowland Hopkins20 June 1861, British
English biochemist
Albrecht Kossel16 September 1853, German
Biochemist
Edward Calvin Kendall08 March 1886, American
Biochemist
Otto Fritz Meyerhof12 April 1884, German
Physician and Biochemist
John James Rickard Macleod06 September 1876, British, Scottish
Biochemist & Physiologist
Henrik Dam21 February 1895, Danish
Biochemist
Arthur Harden12 October 1865, British
Biochemist
Lafayette Mendel05 February 1872, American
Biochemist
Charles Best27 February 1899, Canadian, American
Co-discoverer of Insulin
Yellapragada Subbarow12 January 1895, Indian
Biochemist
Friedrich Miescher13 August 1844, Swiss
Biologist, Biochemist, University teacher
Gerhard Domagk30 October 1895, German, Polish
Biochemist, Physician, University teacher
Alexander Oparin02 March 1894, Russian
biologist, biochemist, chemist
Phoebus Levene25 February 1869, American, Russian
Biochemist
Anselme Payen06 January 1795, French
Chemist
Lawrence Joseph Henderson03 June 1878, American
Physiologist
Florence B. Seibert06 October 1897, American
Biochemist
John Jacob Abel19 May 1857, American
Biochemist
Per Teodor Cleve10 February 1840, Swedish
Chemist
Dorothy Maud Wrinch12 September 1894, Argentinian
Mathematician
Muriel Wheldale Onslow31 March 1880, British
Biochemist