Facts on Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine

Francis Crick

Was an English neuroscientist, molecular biologist and biophysicist.

10 facts about Francis Crick

Robert Koch

Was a German-born physicist who was best known for studying and finding the diseases anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera

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James Watson

Is an American geneticist and biophysicist who was noted for the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.

10 facts about James Watson

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Was an American biologist known for his extensive work in species variation among many other scientific breakthroughs.

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Paul Ehrlich

Was a German physicist known for his work in new sciences including chemotherapy

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Charles Sherrington

Was an English histologist, pathologist, neurophysiologist and bacteriologist.

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Max Delbruck

Was a biophysicist of German-American descent, known widely for his work on bacteria and other significant biological discoveries.

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Karl Landsteiner

was an Austrian biologist and physician.

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Konrad Lorenz

Was an Austrian behaviorist and one of the principal founders of ethology, a branch of sciences that attempts to gain a deeper insight of behavioral patterns in animals.

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Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Was an English biochemist recognized as the father of British biochemistry for his invaluable contribution to this field.

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Gertrude Belle Elion

Was an American pharmacologist and biochemist who was famous for her scientific discovery of drugs to treat leukemia and herpes and to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants.

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Alexander Fleming

Was a Scottish biologist and inventor best known for discovering the enzyme lysozyme and the antibiotic substand penicillin.

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Konrad Lorenz

An Austrian zoologist and ornithologist.

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Barbara McClintock

was an American scientist and the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

is a German biologist

10 facts about Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

George Beadle

was an American scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Lawrie Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958.

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Gerty Theresa Cori

was an American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science

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Ivan Pavlov

A Russian physiologist.

10 facts about Ivan Pavlov

Rita Levi-Montalcini

An Italian neurologist.

10 facts about Rita Levi-Montalcini

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

A Spanish pathologist, histologist and neuroscientist.

10 facts about Santiago Ramon y Cajal