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Born December 30, 1930 (age 95) • Ningbo • China
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study Plasmodium malariae • artemisinin • malaria

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Paul Müller
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
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Tadeus Reichstein
Swiss chemist
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Paul Lauterbur
American chemist
Laveran
Alphonse Laveran
French physician and pathologist
Edward Kendall
Edward Calvin Kendall
American chemist
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Gerty Cori
American biochemist
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
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
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
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
Edvard Moser stands smiling in a laboratory, wearing a light blue sweater, with shelves of scientific supplies and equipment visible in the background.
Edvard I. Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist

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