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Born June 3, 1899 • Budapest • Hungary
Died June 13, 1972 (aged 73) • Honolulu • Hawaii
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1961)
Notable Works “Experiments in Hearing”
Subjects Of Study cochlea • hearing • sound reception
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
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Sir Peter Mansfield
British physicist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
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
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
David Baltimore, 2011
David Baltimore
American virologist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello
American geneticist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist

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