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Born October 6, 1937 (age 89) • Verona • Italy
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2007)
Subjects Of Study gene targeting • knockout mouse • recombinant DNA
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Smithies, Oliver
Oliver Smithies
American scientist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello
American geneticist
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
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Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
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Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Andrew Z. Fire
American geneticist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
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Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
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George Davis Snell
American geneticist
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A.D. Hershey
American biologist
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Stanley Cohen
American biochemist

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