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Born January 13, 1927 • Germiston • South Africa
Died April 5, 2019 (aged 92) • Singapore
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2002) • Copley Medal (1991)
Subjects Of Study Caenorhabditis elegans • apoptosis • gene regulation

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