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Born July 22, 1888 • Pryluky • Ukraine
Died August 16, 1973 (aged 85) • Hyannis • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1952)
Subjects Of Study antibiotic • microorganism • soil • streptomycin

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Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
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Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
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Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
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John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
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Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Max Theiler
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Élie Metchnikoff
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
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
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist

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