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Wolfram Saenger
German biochemist
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dead
- born
- 1939
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 86
- known for
- biochemist, university teacher
1939 – 2026
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who wolfram saenger is
Wolfram Saenger was a German biochemist and protein biochemist known for his pioneering contributions to nucleic acid crystallography and structural biology. Over a scientific career spanning more than four decades, he worked at Harvard University (Harvard Medical School, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, and the Free University of Berlin, where he led the Institute for Crystallography until his retirement in 2011.
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