​​ Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937)

He was a New Zealand-born British physicist. Rutherford is known as "the father of nuclear physics". He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances."

​​Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

He was Danish physicist. Bohr was the first to apply the quantum concept, which restricts the energy of a system to certain discrete values, to the problem of atomic and molecular structure. For that work he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.

​​Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994)

She was an English chemist. Hodgkin discovered the structure of penicillin and insulin during World War II. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 "for solving the atomic structure of molecules such as penicillin and insulin, using X-ray crystallography".

​​Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860 - 1904)

He was a Danish physician and the founder of modern phototherapy. He received the Nobel Prize in 1903 for Physiology or Medicine for the application of light in the treatment of skin diseases.

Emil Fischer (1852 - 1919)

He was a German chemist. Fischer was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1902 for Chemistry in recognition of his investigations of the sugar and purine groups of substances. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection.

Eduard Buchner (1860 - 1917)

He was a German biochemist. Buchner received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1907 “for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation”. In 1897 Eduard Buchner discovered that yeast extract with no living yeast fungi can form alcohol from a sugar solution.

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