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Born March 7, 1938 (age 86) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1975)
Subjects Of Study cancer • oncogenic virus • retrovirus • reverse transcriptase • transcription

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Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
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