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Also Known As Charles Herbert Best
Born February 27, 1899 • Maine
Died March 31, 1978 (aged 79) • Toronto • Canada
Subjects Of Study anticoagulant • choline • diabetes mellitus • enzyme • insulin • therapeutics • thrombosis

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Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
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Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
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Nicolas C. Paulescu
Romanian physiologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
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Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Buck, Linda B.
Linda B. Buck
American physician
Marshall, Barry J.
Barry J. Marshall
Australian physician
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Richard Axel
American scientist
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Edwin Gerhard Krebs
American biochemist
Theorell
Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
Swedish biochemist
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Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
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Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
Philip Showalter Hench.
Philip Showalter Hench
American physician
George Richards Minot
George Richards Minot
American physician
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
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William P. Murphy
American physician

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