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Born February 13, 1728 • Scotland
Died October 16, 1793 (aged 65) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1787)

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John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Paget
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and physiologist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
British physiologist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Sir Victor Horsley, c. 1910
Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
César Milstein
Argentine immunologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
William Prout
British chemist
Rodney Robert Porter
British biochemist

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