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Born October 20, 1942 (age 84) • Magdeburg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1995)
Subjects Of Study Drosophila melanogaster • fruit fly • vinegar fly • embryo

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Elizabeth Blackburn
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Peter Hegemann
German biochemist and biophysicist
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
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Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
German biochemist
Konrad E. Bloch.
Konrad E. Bloch
American biochemist
Lipmann, 1953
Fritz Albert Lipmann
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Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Max Delbrück
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Sir Ernst Boris Chain
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