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Also Known As Elizabeth Stern Shankman
Born September 19, 1915 • Canada
Died August 18, 1980 (aged 64) • Los Angeles • California
Subjects Of Study cancer • carcinogenesis • cell • cervical cancer • herpesvirus • oncogenic virus
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
Howard Martin Temin
American virologist
Peyton Rous.
Peyton Rous
American pathologist
Keith Roberts Porter
American biologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
John Goodsir
Scottish anatomist
Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Stephen J. Elledge
American geneticist
Lynn Margulis
American biologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Bert Vogelstein
American oncologist
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher
James P. Allison
American immunologist