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Hwang Woo Suk and Gerald Schatten
Hwang Woo-Suk
South Korean scientist
Moon Shin Yong
South Korean obstetrician
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Eric F. Wieschaus
American developmental biologist
C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Steen Willadsen
Danish embryologist
Sir John Graham Kerr
British biologist
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
William Brooks
William Keith Brooks
American zoologist
Fabricius ab Aquapendente, oil painting by an unknown artist
Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente
Italian surgeon
Aleksandr Onufriyevich Kovalevsky
Russian embryologist
Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist