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Born March 21, 1932 (age 92) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1980)
Subjects Of Study DNA sequencing • nucleic acid

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James Watson
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Elizabeth Blackburn
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Carol W. Greider
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