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Born January 12, 1899 • Switzerland
Died October 12, 1965 (aged 66) • Basel • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1948)
Subjects Of Study DDT • insecticide

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Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
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Daniel Bovet.
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Robert Koch
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Bruce A. Beutler
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