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Born October 9, 1933 • London • England
Died February 8, 2017 (aged 83)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2003)
Subjects Of Study magnetic resonance imaging
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Sir John Robert Vane
British biochemist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Georg von Békésy
American physicist and physiologist
Paul Lauterbur
American chemist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Niels K. Jerne
Danish immunologist
Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist

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