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BIOCHEMIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone with special training in biochemistry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("biochemist" is a kind of...):
chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biochemist"):
enzymologist (a person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology)
Instance hyponyms:
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins; Maurice Wilkins; Wilkins (English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004))
Otto Heinrich Warburg; Warburg (German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical techniques in biological investigations; noted for studies of cellular respiration (1883-1970))
Edward Lawrie Tatum; Tatum (United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975))
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi; Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi; Szent-Gyorgyi (United States biochemist (born in Hungary) who was the first to isolate vitamin C (1893-1986))
Fred Sanger; Frederick Sanger; 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))
Max Ferdinand Perutz; Max Perutz; Perutz (English biochemist (born in Austria); studied the molecular structure of blood (1914-2002))
Ochoa; Severo Ochoa (United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993))
John Howard Northrop; Northrop (United States biochemist (1891-1987))
Jacques Lucien Monod; Jacques Monod; Monod (French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976))
Meyerhof; Otto Fritz Meyerhof; Otto Meyerhof (United States biochemist (born in Germany) who studied the metabolism of muscles (1884-1951))
Fritz Albert Lipmann; Lipmann (United States biochemist (born in Germany) noted for his studies of metabolic processes (1899-1986))
Hans Adolf Krebs; Krebs; Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981))
Edward Calvin Kendall; Edward Kendall; Kendall (United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972))
Francois Jacob; Jacob (French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920))
Hopkins; Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947))
George Herbert Hitchings; Hitchings (United States biochemist noted for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout (1905-1998))
Haworth; 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))
Casimir Funk; 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))
Crick; Francis Crick; Francis Henry Compton Crick (English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004))
Chain; Ernst Boris Chain; 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))
Derivation:
biochemistry (the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry)
