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Also Known As Sir Peter John Ratcliffe
Born May 14, 1954 (age 70) • Lancashire • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2019)
Subjects Of Study cancer • erythropoietin • hypoxia • hypoxia-inducible factor • kidney • prolyl hydroxylation • tumour
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
J. Michael Bishop
American scientist
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist
E. Donnall Thomas
American physician
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist