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Born June 19, 1906 • Berlin • Germany
Died August 12, 1979 (aged 73) • Ireland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1945)

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Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
German biochemist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Bert Sakmann
German scientist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer
Konrad E. Bloch.
Konrad E. Bloch
American biochemist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Lipmann, 1953
Fritz Albert Lipmann
American scientist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist