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Born March 5, 1938 • Chicago • Illinois
Died November 22, 2011 (aged 73) • Amherst • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1999)
Subjects Of Study Gaia hypothesis • cell • eukaryote • evolution • symbiosis
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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Keith Roberts Porter
American biologist
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Susan L. Lindquist
American molecular biologist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
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Albert Claude
Belgian-American cytologist
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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
Alberts, Bruce
Bruce Alberts
American scientist
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Carl Woese
American microbiologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
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Theodore Hall
American-born physicist and spy
Stevens, Nettie
Nettie Stevens
American biologist and geneticist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist

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