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Key People

Edward Murray East

American scientist

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

British biochemist

William Prout

British chemist

Mendel, Lafayette Benedict

Lafayette Benedict Mendel

American biochemist