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Born February 23, 1924 • Johannesburg • South Africa • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died May 7, 1998 (aged 74) • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1979)

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Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Georg von Békésy
American physicist and physiologist
George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
André F. Cournand
American physiologist
Dickinson Woodruff Richards
American physiologist
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
Sir Peter Mansfield
British physicist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
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Sir Ernst Boris Chain
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Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Einthoven
Willem Einthoven
Dutch physiologist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist
Gullstrand
Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist

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