Famous people died in August - page 5

Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American paediatrician and virologist who was one of the joint winners of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology 1954

Richard Kuhn was an Austrian-German biochemist

Feodor Lynen was a German biochemist who jointly received the ‘Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine’ in 1964

Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945

Selman Waksman was a noted Russian-born American scientist who discovered the antibiotic streptomycin

Max Theiler was a South African-American virologist who developed a vaccine against yellow fever

Tadeusz Reichstein was a Polish born Swiss chemist known for his discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex

Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist and physician

Edgar Adrian was an English electrophysiologist who was one of the winners of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology

Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949