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Born June 11, 1912 • Yarmouth • Canada
Died May 2, 1997 (aged 84) • Pennsylvania
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1976)
Subjects Of Study cell • tissue
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Albert Claude
Belgian-American cytologist
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Lynn Margulis
American biologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
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George E. Palade
Romanian-born American cell biologist
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson
American biologist
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Paul Alfred Weiss
American biologist
Stevens, Nettie
Nettie Stevens
American biologist and geneticist
Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb
German biologist
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Daniel Mazia
American biologist
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Edward Fred Knipling
American entomologist
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Susan L. Lindquist
American molecular biologist
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist
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Carl Woese
American microbiologist
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Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist
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Elizabeth Stern
Canadian pathologist
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David Hunter Hubel
American biologist

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