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Born October 19, 1856 • Illinois
Died March 3, 1939 (aged 82) • New York City • New York • (Died on this day)
Notable Works “Cell in Development and Inheritance”
Subjects Of Study cell • chromosome

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Lynn Margulis
American biologist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Albert Claude
Belgian cytologist
Keith Roberts Porter
American biologist
George E. Palade
Romanian-born American cell biologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Beneden, Edouard van
Edouard van Beneden
Belgian embryologist and cytologist
Walther Flemming
German biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Stevens, Nettie
Nettie Stevens
American biologist and geneticist
Cornelia Maria Clapp
American zoologist
Paul Alfred Weiss
American biologist
Theophilus Shickel Painter
American zoologist
Daniel Mazia
American biologist
Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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