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Born July 20, 1897 • Włocławek • Poland
Died August 1, 1996 (aged 99) • Basel • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1968) • Nobel Prize (1950)
Subjects Of Study corticoid • cortisone • steroid hormone
Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou
Chinese scientist and phytochemist
Edward Kendall
Edward Calvin Kendall
American chemist
Paul Müller
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist
Philip Showalter Hench.
Philip Showalter Hench
American physician
Paul Lauterbur
American chemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
César Milstein
Argentine immunologist
Brenner, Sydney
Sydney Brenner
South African-born biologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Nurse, Paul
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist

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