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Born December 10, 1934 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died February 9, 1994 (aged 59) • Madison • Wisconsin
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1975)
Subjects Of Study cancer • oncogenic virus • retrovirus • reverse transcriptase
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
J. Michael Bishop
American scientist
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician
E. Donnall Thomas
American physician
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Frederick Chapman Robbins
American physician
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
Peyton Rous.
Peyton Rous
American pathologist
Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist