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Born June 3, 1929 (age 95) • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1978)
Subjects Of Study DNA • enzyme • nuclease • restriction enzyme
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
A.D. Hershey
American biologist
Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Max Delbrück
American biologist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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