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Also Known As Jules Alphonse Hoffmann
Born August 2, 1941 (age 85) • Luxembourg
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2011)
Subjects Of Study vinegar fly • immune system • nonspecific immunity

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Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
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James P. Allison
American immunologist
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
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Tonegawa Susumu
Japanese biologist
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Niels K. Jerne
Danish immunologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
Shimon Sakaguchi
Shimon Sakaguchi
Japanese immunologist
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Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist
Jean Dausset.
Jean Dausset
French hematologist and immunologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
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
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
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Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
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Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist