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Also Known As Conrad Hal Waddington
Born November 8, 1905 • Evesham • England
Died September 26, 1975 (aged 69) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Subjects Of Study biological development • embryo • gene regulation
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Gary Ruvkun
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Cowinner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros
Victor Ambros
American developmental biologist and molecular geneticist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Aleksandr Onufriyevich Kovalevsky
Russian embryologist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Weismann, August
August Weismann
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Hwang Woo Suk and Gerald Schatten
Hwang Woo-Suk
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Watson, James
James Watson
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Susan L. Lindquist
American molecular biologist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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Moon Shin Yong
South Korean obstetrician
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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