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James P. Allison
American immunologist
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist and botanist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Carl Woese
American microbiologist
Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Charles Yanofsky
American geneticist
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
American physician and microbiologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Alice Evans
American scientist
Félix d’ Hérelle
Canadian microbiologist
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Dmitry Ivanovsky
Russian microbiologist
René Dubos
American microbiologist
Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist

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