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Born March 29, 1923 • England
Died May 15, 2009 (aged 86) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Subjects Of Study Wilson disease • ceruloplasmin • liver • mutation • penicillamine
Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Evelyn M. Witkin
American geneticist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Bert Vogelstein
American oncologist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
Craig C. Mello (left) and Andrew Z. Fire, 2006.
Craig C. Mello
American geneticist
Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Segev, Dorry
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Craig C. Mello (left) and Andrew Z. Fire, 2006.
Andrew Z. Fire
American geneticist

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