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Also Known As Baron Peter Piot
Born February 17, 1949 (age 76) • Leuven • Belgium
Subjects Of Study AIDS • Ebola • HIV • ebolavirus • sexually transmitted disease
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier
French scientist
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
French virologist
William Farr
British physician
Segev, Dorry
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Nathan Wolfe, 2008.
Nathan Wolfe
American virologist and epidemiologist
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Mathilde Krim
American medical researcher
John Snow
John Snow
British physician
Paul Farmer
American anthropologist and epidemiologist
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist and botanist
Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Cecil G. Sheps
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David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
Sara Josephine Baker.
Sara Josephine Baker
American physician
David Satcher
David Satcher
American physician
James P. Allison
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Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim
American physician and anthropologist
Sheela Basrur
Canadian physician and government official
Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, author, and feminist

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