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Born January 30, 1899 • Pretoria • South Africa
Died August 11, 1972 (aged 73) • New Haven • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1951)
Subjects Of Study yellow fever

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Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
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John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
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Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Élie Metchnikoff
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
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Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist
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James P. Allison
American immunologist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
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Albert Claude
Belgian-American cytologist

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