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Born November 7, 1929 (age 97) • Vienna • Austria
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2000)
Subjects Of Study memory • synapse
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Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist
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Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Greengard, Paul
Paul Greengard
American neurobiologist
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
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Karl von Frisch
Austrian zoologist
Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Austrian psychiatrist
Bárány, Robert
Robert Bárány
Swedish otologist
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Karl Deisseroth wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera with a blue and white event backdrop behind him.
Karl Deisseroth
American psychiatrist and bioengineer
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist