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Born December 11, 1968 (age 55) • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2020)

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Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
Lindahl, Tomas
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Yves Chauvin
French chemist
Sauvage, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French chemist
Moissan, 1906
Henri Moissan
French chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Victor Grignard.
Victor Grignard
French chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
American microbiologist

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