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Born March 23, 1907 • Neuchâtel • Switzerland
Died April 8, 1992 (aged 85) • Rome • Italy
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1957)
Subjects Of Study antihistamine • curare • histamine • muscle relaxant • pyrilamine • sulfa drug

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Gertrude Elion, 1988.
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Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
Arvid Carlsson
Swedish pharmacologist
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
Paul Müller
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian-American neurologist
Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi
Italian physician and cytologist
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist
Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
Tadeus Reichstein
Swiss chemist