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Born July 31, 1859 • Albany • New York
Died December 10, 1934 (aged 75) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1933)
Subjects Of Study tick • Babesia • Mycobacterium • Texas cattle fever • parasitism

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Norman Ernest Borlaug
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Howard T. Ricketts
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Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Manson, detail of an oil painting by J. Young Hunter, 1912; in the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London
Sir Patrick Manson
Scottish parasitologist
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
William Prout
British chemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Campbell, William
William Campbell
Irish-born American parasitologist
Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist
Baruch S. Blumberg, 1976.
Baruch S. Blumberg
American physician
Elizabeth Stern
Canadian pathologist
Eugene Lindsay Opie
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William Henry Welch
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Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
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George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
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Martha Wollstein
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