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Born June 11, 1912 • Yarmouth • Canada
Died May 2, 1997 (aged 84) • Pennsylvania
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1976)
Subjects Of Study cell • tissue
Lynn Margulis
American biologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Albert Claude
Belgian cytologist
George E. Palade
Romanian-born American cell biologist
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson
American biologist
Paul Alfred Weiss
American biologist
Stevens, Nettie
Nettie Stevens
American biologist and geneticist
Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb
German biologist
Daniel Mazia
American biologist
Susan L. Lindquist
American molecular biologist
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist
Carl Woese
American microbiologist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian-American scientist
Elizabeth Stern
Canadian pathologist
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science