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Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist

Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist

Maurice Hilleman
American microbiologist

Martinus W. Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist and botanist

Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist

Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist

James P. Allison
American immunologist

Carl Woese
American microbiologist

Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist

Charles Yanofsky
American geneticist

Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist

Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist

Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist

Félix d’ Hérelle
Canadian microbiologist

Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
American physician and microbiologist

Alice Evans
American scientist

John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist

Dmitry Ivanovsky
Russian microbiologist

René Dubos
American microbiologist
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