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Born March 7, 1944 (age 82) • Kansas City • Missouri
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2017)
Subjects Of Study Drosophila melanogaster • fruit fly • vinegar fly • circadian rhythm • period
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
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Eric F. Wieschaus
American developmental biologist
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
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
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Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Gary Ruvkun reacts after learning that he is a winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Gary Ruvkun
American molecular biologist and geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello
American geneticist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
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Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Andrew Z. Fire
American geneticist

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