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Born May 21, 1860 • Semarang • Indonesia
Died September 29, 1927 (aged 67) • Leiden • Netherlands
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1924)
Subjects Of Study bioelectric potential • heart

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André F. Cournand
American physiologist
Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer
George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
Werner Forssmann
German physician
Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
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Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist
Gullstrand
Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist
Dickinson Woodruff Richards
American physiologist
Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Carl Cori
American biochemist

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