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Hugh Esmor Huxley
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Born February 25, 1924 • Birkenhead • England
Died July 25, 2013 (aged 89) • Woods Hole • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1997)
Subjects Of Study X-ray diffraction • muscle • sliding filament theory • electron microscope
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Susan L. Lindquist
American molecular biologist
Gary Ruvkun reacts after learning that he is a winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Gary Ruvkun
American molecular biologist and geneticist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
Matthew Meselson
American biologist
Brenner, Sydney
Sydney Brenner
South African-born biologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist
Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian-American scientist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Tonegawa Susumu
Japanese biologist
Gilbert, Walter
Walter Gilbert
American biologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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