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Born October 30, 1895 • Germany
Died April 24, 1964 (aged 68) • Germany • (Anniversary in 4 days)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1939)

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Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Emil von Behring, 1914.
Emil von Behring
German bacteriologist
Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician