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Born June 27, 1869 • Stuttgart • Germany
Died September 12, 1941 (aged 72) • Freiburg im Breisgau • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study induction
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
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Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Peter Hegemann, wearing a suit and patterned tie, smiles while holding an open award certificate in both hands.
Peter Hegemann
German biochemist and biophysicist
Portrait of Professor Georg Nagel wearing a beige jacket, patterned shirt, and light tie, standing in front of a wooden wall with green plants in the background.
Georg Nagel
German biophysicist
production of monoclonal antibodies
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
German biochemist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
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Bert Sakmann
German scientist
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Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Konrad E. Bloch.
Konrad E. Bloch
American biochemist
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Werner Forssmann
German physician
Emil von Behring, 1914.
Emil von Behring
German bacteriologist
Lipmann, 1953
Fritz Albert Lipmann
American scientist
Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Max Delbrück
American biologist