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Born February 20, 1894 • Denver • Colorado
Died December 21, 1988 (aged 94) • Baltimore • Maryland
Subjects Of Study biological clock • biological rhythm • learned behaviour
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Edward Fred Knipling
American entomologist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
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George B. Schaller
American environmental conservationist and author
Charles Henry Turner.
Charles Henry Turner
American scientist
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Lynn Margulis
American biologist
Maurice Hilleman
Maurice Hilleman
American microbiologist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Susan L. Lindquist
American molecular biologist
Robert J. Lefkowitz.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
American physician and biologist
Gary Ruvkun reacts after learning that he is a winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Gary Ruvkun
American molecular biologist and geneticist
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
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Theodore Hall
American-born physicist and spy
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist
Cowinner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros
Victor Ambros
American developmental biologist and molecular geneticist
Ruth Patrick
Ruth Patrick
American biologist and educator

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