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Also Known As Sergey Nikolayevich Vinogradsky
Born September 1, 1856 • Kyiv • Ukraine
Died February 25, 1953 (aged 96) • France
Subjects Of Study nitrification • nitrifying bacterium • nitrogen fixation
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Dmitry Ivanovsky
Russian microbiologist
Maurice Hilleman
American microbiologist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Carl Woese
American microbiologist
Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
American physician and microbiologist
Félix d’ Hérelle
Canadian microbiologist
Alice Evans
American scientist
René Dubos
American microbiologist
Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
Maclyn McCarty
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Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
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