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Born January 27, 1903 • Melbourne • Australia
Died May 2, 1997 (aged 94) • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Rhodes Scholarship • Nobel Prize (1963)
Subjects Of Study nerve impulse

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Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Joseph Erlanger
American physiologist
Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist
Ulf von Euler
Swedish physiologist
Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Marshall, Barry J.
Barry J. Marshall
Australian physician
Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist

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