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Also Known As Thomas Huckle Weller
Born June 15, 1915 • Ann Arbor • Michigan
Died August 23, 2008 (aged 93) • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study poliovirus • tissue culture
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Frederick Chapman Robbins
American physician
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier
French scientist
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
French virologist
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
J. Michael Bishop
American scientist
Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Schekman, Randy W.
Randy W. Schekman
American biochemist and cell biologist
E. Donnall Thomas
American physician
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist