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Born June 5, 1862 • Landskrona • Sweden
Died July 28, 1930 (aged 68) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1911)
Subjects Of Study eye • light • refraction

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Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
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Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
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American geneticist
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Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer
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American scientist
Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
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Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
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Lord Florey.
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Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
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Dickinson Woodruff Richards
American physiologist
Torsten Wiesel
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Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson
Swedish biochemist
Ragnar Arthur Granit
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Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
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