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Born August 20, 1904 • Berlin • Germany
Died June 1, 1979 (aged 74) • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1956)
Subjects Of Study cardiac catheterization • disease • heart
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André F. Cournand
American physiologist
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D. Carleton Gajdusek
American physician
Egas Moniz
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist
Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
Kocher, c. 1900
Emil Theodor Kocher
Swiss surgeon
Niels Ryberg Finsen.
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Danish physician
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Einthoven
Willem Einthoven
Dutch physiologist
Bárány, Robert
Robert Bárány
Swedish otologist
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Dickinson Woodruff Richards
American physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
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Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Peter Hegemann, wearing a suit and patterned tie, smiles while holding an open award certificate in both hands.
Peter Hegemann
German biochemist and biophysicist
Portrait of Professor Georg Nagel wearing a beige jacket, patterned shirt, and light tie, standing in front of a wooden wall with green plants in the background.
Georg Nagel
German biophysicist
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Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist