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Philipp Lenard

Philipp Lenard

18621947

Hungarian-German physicist who won the 1905 Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on cathode rays and the photoelectric effect

Frederick Hopkins

Frederick Hopkins

18611947

English biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins, also discovered the amino acid tryptophan