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Emil Theodor Kocher: Quick Facts

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Born August 25, 1841 • Bern • Switzerland
Died July 27, 1917 (aged 75) • Bern • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1909)
Subjects Of Study thyroid gland

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Kocher, c. 1900
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Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Egas Moniz
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist
Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
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Werner Forssmann
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Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
Paul Müller
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist
Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist
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Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
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Tadeus Reichstein
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Anton, baron von Eiselsberg
Austrian surgeon
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
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Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
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Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist