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Born March 20, 1944 (age 81) • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1991)
Subjects Of Study ion channel • ion transport • membrane

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Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
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American medical physicist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
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Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
Maurice Wilkins
British biophysicist
Sir Peter Mansfield
British physicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Georg von Békésy
American physicist and physiologist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer
George Herbert Hitchings
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