Biochemist Graves & Memorials

Thomas Burr Osborne

1859–1929 (age 70)

Grove Street Cemetery

Thomas Burr Osborne was an American biochemist who conducted pioneering research on plant proteins from 1859 to 1929.

Leonor Michaelis

1875–1949 (age 74)

Ridgewood

Leonor Michaelis was a German biochemist known for his contributions to enzyme kinetics.

Russell Henry Chittenden

1856–1943 (age 87)

Evergreen Cemetery

Russell Henry Chittenden (1856-1943) was an American biochemist and physiologist at Yale University.

Harry Steenbock

1886–1967 (age 81)

Forest Hill Cemetery

Harry Steenbock was a Wisconsin biochemist and nutritionist who lived from 1886 to 1967.

Conrad Elvehjem

1901–1962 (age 61)

Forest Hill Cemetery

Conrad Elvehjem (1901-1962) was an American biochemist known for his research on niacin and B vitamins.

Judith Graham Pool

1919–1975 (age 56)

Hills of Eternity Memorial Park

Judith Graham Pool was an American biochemist who pioneered research on blood coagulation and platelet function.

Carl Ferdinand Cori

1896–1984 (age 88)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Carl Ferdinand Cori was a Czech-American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947.

Edward Adelbert Doisy

1893–1986 (age 93)

Oak Hill Cemetery

Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Károly Bartha

1907–1991 (age 84)

Boston

Károly Bartha (1907-1991) was a Hungarian biochemist and enzyme researcher.

Frank Olson

1910–1953 (age 43)

Mount Olivet Cemetery

Frank Olson, born in Hurley in 1910, was a U.S. Army biochemist whose mysterious 1953 death led to his interment at Moun...

Daisy Yen Wu

1902–1993 (age 91)

Forest Hills Cemetery

Daisy Yen Wu (1902-1993), born in Shanghai, was an American biochemist noted for her research on human metabolism, burie...

Konrad Emil Bloch

1912–2000 (age 88)

Sunset Memory Gardens

Konrad Emil Bloch (1912–2000) was a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist born in Nysa and buried at Sunset Memory Gardens.

D. Bruce Merrifield

1921–2017 (age 96)

Arlington National Cemetery

D. Bruce Merrifield (1921-2017) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for inventing solid-phase peptide syn...

Thomas A. Steitz

1940–2018 (age 78)

Grove Street Cemetery

Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018) was an American biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize for determining the structure of th...

Irwin Rose

1926–2015 (age 89)

Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery

Nobel laureate Irwin Rose, the biochemist honored for his work on protein degradation, died in 2015 and is buried at the...

Aharon Razin

1935–2019 (age 84)

Har HaMenuchot

Aharon Razin was an Israeli biochemist and pioneer in DNA methylation research who made fundamental contributions to epi...