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Fritz Albert Lipmann

Fritz Albert Lipmann

18991986

German-American biochemist and Nobel laureate who co-discovered coenzyme A and elucidated its importance for intermediary metabolism

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

18991972

Japanese novelist and short story writer, known for his spare, lyrical prose and as the first Japanese Nobel laureate in Literature

Georg von Békésy

Georg von Békésy

18991972

Hungarian-American biophysicist known for his Nobel Prize-winning research on the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea, unraveling the mysteries of human hearing