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Born August 25, 1916 • Auburn • Alabama
Died August 4, 2003 (aged 86) • Cleveland • Ohio
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1954)
Subjects Of Study poliovirus • tissue culture
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
J. Michael Bishop
American scientist
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
Howard Martin Temin
American virologist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier
French scientist
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
French virologist
Harald zur Hausen
Harald zur Hausen
German virologist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist

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