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Born February 10, 1897 • West Hartford • Connecticut
Died September 8, 1985 (aged 88) • Waterford • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1954)
Subjects Of Study poliovirus • tissue culture
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Frederick Chapman Robbins
American physician
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Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
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Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Max Theiler
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Élie Metchnikoff
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
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Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
David Baltimore, 2011
David Baltimore
American virologist
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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James P. Allison
American immunologist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist

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