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Born March 17, 1881 • Frauenfeld • Switzerland
Died August 12, 1973 (aged 92) • Ascona • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1949)
Subjects Of Study autonomic nervous system • brain

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John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Moser, Edvard I.
Edvard I. Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist
Moser, May-Britt
May-Britt Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist
Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist
Egas Moniz
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Roger Wolcott Sperry
American biologist
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
Paul Müller
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist
Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
Italian pharmacologist
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Kocher, c. 1900
Emil Theodor Kocher
Swiss surgeon
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist

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