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Rudolf Jaenisch
German biologist
Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Shinya Yamanaka.
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese scientist
James Thomson
American biologist
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian-born American physician, scientist, and writer