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Born June 19, 1906 • Berlin • Germany
Died August 12, 1979 (aged 73) • Ireland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1945)

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American biochemist and cell biologist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
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American biochemist and cell biologist
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Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
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German-American neuroscientist
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German immunologist
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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Bert Sakmann
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Sir John Robert Vane
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Konrad E. Bloch.
Konrad E. Bloch
American biochemist
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British biochemist
Lipmann, 1953
Fritz Albert Lipmann
American scientist
Rodney Robert Porter
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