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Also Known As Jules Alphonse Hoffmann
Born August 2, 1941 (age 83) • Luxembourg
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2011)
Subjects Of Study Drosophila • immune system • nonspecific immunity

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Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Tonegawa Susumu
Japanese biologist
Niels K. Jerne
Danish immunologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist
Jean Dausset.
Jean Dausset
French hematologist and immunologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Baruj Benacerraf.
Baruj Benacerraf
American immunologist