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Born June 8, 1947 (age 77) • South Bend • Indiana
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study fruit fly • embryo
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello
American geneticist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Andrew Z. Fire
American geneticist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
George Davis Snell
American geneticist
A.D. Hershey
American biologist
Edward B. Lewis
American biologist
Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Max Delbrück
American biologist

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