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Born January 5, 1874 • San Francisco • California
Died December 5, 1965 (aged 91) • St. Louis • Missouri
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1944)
Subjects Of Study axon • nerve impulse
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Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist
Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
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David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
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Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Sir John Eccles.
Sir John Carew Eccles
Australian physiologist
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Ragnar Arthur Granit
Swedish physiologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1956
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
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Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist
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Ulf von Euler
Swedish physiologist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
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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