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Born July 2, 1946 (age 80) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2004)
Subjects Of Study olfactory receptor
Buck, Linda B.
Linda B. Buck
American physician
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
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Edwin Gerhard Krebs
American biochemist
Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
Marshall, Barry J.
Barry J. Marshall
Australian physician
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Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
Harald zur Hausen
Harald zur Hausen
German virologist
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
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
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist