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Born December 15, 1953 (age 70) • South Korea

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Moon Shin Yong
South Korean obstetrician
Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
American scientist
Severino Antinori
Italian gynecologist and embryologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Eric F. Wieschaus
American developmental biologist
C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Steen Willadsen
Danish embryologist
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
Irene Barnes Taeuber
American sociologist
Conrad Taeuber
American sociologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Malthus
English economist and demographer
Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Venter, J. Craig
J. Craig Venter
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