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Born November 7, 1929 (age 95) • Vienna • Austria
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2000)
Subjects Of Study memory • synapse
Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Greengard, Paul
Paul Greengard
American neurobiologist
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Karl von Frisch
Austrian zoologist
Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Austrian psychiatrist
Bárány, Robert
Robert Bárány
Swedish otologist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist