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Born January 30, 1949 (age 76) • Northfield • Minnesota • (Born on this day)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2003)
Subjects Of Study aquaporin • cell membrane
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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.
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