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Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
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Born February 22, 1914 • Catanzaro • Italy
Died February 19, 2012 (aged 97) • California
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1975)
Subjects Of Study animal virus • cancer • genome • malignant transformation • oncogenic virus • polyomavirus • tissue culture

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Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
Howard Martin Temin
American virologist
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
J. Michael Bishop
American scientist
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Frederick Chapman Robbins
American physician
Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
E. Donnall Thomas
American physician
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
Tim Hunt
British scientist