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Born December 11, 1968 (age 57) • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2020)

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Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
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Henri B. Kagan
French chemist
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Yves Chauvin
French chemist
Sauvage, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French chemist
Moissan, 1906
Henri Moissan
French chemist
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Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
Victor Grignard.
Victor Grignard
French chemist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
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James P. Allison
American immunologist
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Élie Metchnikoff
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
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John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
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Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
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Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist

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