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Born October 22, 1903 • Nebraska
Died June 9, 1989 (aged 85) • Pomona • California
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1958)
Subjects Of Study Drosophila • mold • mutation • one gene–one enzyme hypothesis

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English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Max Delbrück
American biologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Gerty Cori
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Carl Cori
American biochemist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Craig C. Mello (left) and Andrew Z. Fire, 2006.
Craig C. Mello
American geneticist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
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Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Gerald Maurice Edelman
Gerald Maurice Edelman
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