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Born November 20, 1886 • Vienna • Austria • (Birthday in 7 days)
Died June 12, 1982 (aged 95) • Munich • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1973)
Subjects Of Study bee • animal behaviour • animal communication • dance
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
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Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Élie Metchnikoff
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
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Eric Kandel
Austrian-American neurobiologist
Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Austrian psychiatrist
Bárány, Robert
Robert Bárány
Swedish otologist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
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
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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