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Key People

Michael Rosbash

American geneticist

Richard Henderson

British biologist

Jacques Dubochet

Swiss biophysicist

Watson, James

James Watson

American geneticist and biophysicist

Telkes, Mária

Mária Telkes

American physical chemist and biophysicist

Crick, Francis

Francis Crick

British biophysicist

Thomas Steitz

American biophysicist and biochemist

Kurt Wüthrich

Swiss scientist

Malerba, Franco

Franco Malerba

Italian biophysicist and astronaut

Neher, Erwin

Erwin Neher

German physicist

Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.

Maurice Wilkins

British biophysicist

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

Jens C. Skou

Danish biophysicist

Ephraim Katzir

president of Israel

Sir Bernard Katz

British physiologist

Donald Redfield Griffin

American biophysicist

De Motu Animalium by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

Italian physiologist and physicist

Pyotr Petrovich Lazarev

Soviet physicist and biophysicist

Alberts, Bruce

Bruce Alberts

American scientist

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greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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