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Also Known As Elizabeth Stern Shankman
Born September 19, 1915 • Canada
Died August 18, 1980 (aged 64) • Los Angeles • California
Subjects Of Study cancer • carcinogenesis • cell • cervical cancer • herpesvirus • oncogenic virus
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John Goodsir
Scottish anatomist
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Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist
David Baltimore, 2011
David Baltimore
American virologist
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Howard Martin Temin
American virologist
Peyton Rous.
Peyton Rous
American pathologist
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Keith Roberts Porter
American biologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
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Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
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Stephen J. Elledge
American geneticist
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Lynn Margulis
American biologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
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Bert Vogelstein
American oncologist
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
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William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher