biochemist

/baɪoʊˈkɛmɪst/

/baɪəʊˈkɛmɪst/

Other forms: biochemists

Definitions of biochemist

1. noun

   someone with special training in biochemistry
   examples:

   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