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Born March 11, 1936 • Gelsenkirchen • Germany
Died May 28, 2023 (aged 87) • Heidelberg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study cervical cancer • human papillomavirus

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Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
J. Michael Bishop
American scientist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Buck, Linda B.
Linda B. Buck
American physician
Marshall, Barry J.
Barry J. Marshall
Australian physician
Richard Axel
American scientist
Edwin Gerhard Krebs
American biochemist
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Frederick Chapman Robbins
American physician
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
Howard Martin Temin
American virologist

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