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Born March 26, 1911 • Leipzig • Germany
Died April 20, 2003 (aged 92) • London • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1970) • Copley Medal (1967)
Subjects Of Study acetylcholine • nerve impulse
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
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Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Peter Hegemann, wearing a suit and patterned tie, smiles while holding an open award certificate in both hands.
Peter Hegemann
German biochemist and biophysicist
Portrait of Professor Georg Nagel wearing a beige jacket, patterned shirt, and light tie, standing in front of a wooden wall with green plants in the background.
Georg Nagel
German biophysicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
Maurice Wilkins
British biophysicist
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1956
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
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César Milstein
Argentine-British immunologist
Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Howard Walter Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist

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