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Born March 11, 1936 • Gelsenkirchen • Germany
Died May 28, 2023 (aged 87) • Heidelberg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study cervical cancer • human papillomavirus

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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
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
David Baltimore, 2011
David Baltimore
American virologist
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
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J. Michael Bishop
American scientist
Sir Macfarlane Burnet, 1945
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Buck, Linda B.
Linda B. Buck
American physician
Marshall, Barry J.
Barry J. Marshall
Australian physician
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Richard Axel
American scientist
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Edwin Gerhard Krebs
American biochemist
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John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
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Frederick Chapman Robbins
American physician
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
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Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
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Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
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Howard Martin Temin
American virologist