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Born June 12, 1942 (age 84) • Stuttgart • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1991)
Subjects Of Study ion channel • ion transport • membrane
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Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
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Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
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Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
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Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Sir Ernst Boris Chain seated in a suit, looking toward the camera with hands clasped in his lap.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
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William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher
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James P. Allison
American immunologist
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
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Gregg L. Semenza
American physician
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
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E. Donnall Thomas
American physician
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Haldan Keffer Hartline
American physiologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
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Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier
French scientist
Howard Walter Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
French virologist