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Also Known As Sir Michael Houghton
Born 1949 (age 76) • United Kingdom
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2020)
Subjects Of Study hepatitis C virus
Harvey J. Alter
Harvey J. Alter
American virologist
Charles M. Rice
American virologist
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
J. Michael Bishop
American scientist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
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
Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
Howard Martin Temin
American virologist
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier
French scientist
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
French virologist
Harald zur Hausen
Harald zur Hausen
German virologist
Drew Weissman
Drew Weissman
American immunologist
Katalin Karikó
Katalin Karikó
Hungarian-born biochemist
Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou
Chinese scientist and phytochemist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist