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Born November 20, 1886 • Vienna • Austria
Died June 12, 1982 (aged 95) • Munich • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1973)
Subjects Of Study bee • animal behaviour • animal communication • dance
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Eric Kandel
Austrian-American neurobiologist
Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Austrian psychiatrist
Bárány, Robert
Robert Bárány
Swedish otologist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Moser, Edvard I.
Edvard I. Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist

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