James P. Allison: Quick Facts

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Born	August 7, 1948 (age 78) • Texas
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2018)
Subjects Of Study	CTLA-4 • T cell • amino acid • antibody • cancer • immune system • melanoma

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Tasuku Honjo

Japanese immunologist

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William G. Kaelin, Jr.

American physician and medical researcher

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Gregg L. Semenza

American physician

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Tonegawa Susumu

Japanese biologist

Bordet, Jules

Jules Bordet

Belgian bacteriologist

Shimon Sakaguchi

Shimon Sakaguchi

Japanese immunologist

Bruce A. Beutler.

Bruce A. Beutler

American immunologist

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E. Donnall Thomas

American physician

Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.

Charles B. Huggins

American surgeon and medical researcher

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Daniel Nathans

American microbiologist

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Michael W. Young

American geneticist

Ralph M. Steinman.

Ralph M. Steinman

Canadian immunologist and cell biologist

Jules Hoffmann

Jules Hoffmann

French immunologist

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Niels K. Jerne

Danish immunologist

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Peter J. Ratcliffe

British physician and scientist

David Baltimore, 2011

David Baltimore

American virologist

Carol W. Greider

Carol W. Greider

American molecular biologist

Karl Landsteiner.

Karl Landsteiner

Austrian immunologist and pathologist

Harold Varmus

Harold Varmus

American scientist

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Thomas C. Südhof

German-American neuroscientist

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

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