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Born October 20, 1942 (age 82) • Magdeburg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1995)
Subjects Of Study fruit fly • vinegar fly • embryo

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George Wells Beadle.
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American geneticist
Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Har Gobind Khorana
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Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
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Oliver Smithies
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Stanley Cohen
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
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Konrad E. Bloch.
Konrad E. Bloch
American biochemist
Lipmann, 1953
Fritz Albert Lipmann
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Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
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