The scientist we are looking for this time received high honors in chemistry for his or her work on the structure of important proteins. His or her research subject was extracted from whale meat.

After World War II, our chemist worked in the UK alongside a group of scientists who had an enormous influence on biochemistry. He or she used an early electronic computer to analyze the data for his or her seminal work.

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• The Guess the Chemist answer was published on March 24, 2017.
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