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Born July 12, 1935 (age 89) • Yamanashi • Japan
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2015)
Subjects Of Study anthelmintic • fatty acid • parasitism

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Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
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John Franklin Enders
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French biologist
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Max Theiler
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