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Born November 25, 1887 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania • (Birthday in 4 days)
Died July 21, 1959 (aged 71) • Woods Hole • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study bioluminescence • cyprid
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Agassiz
Swiss scientist
Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Karl von Frisch
Austrian zoologist
Karl August Möbius
German zoologist
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist
Guillaume Rondelet
French naturalist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark
American ichthyologist
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist

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