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Nobel Prize winners
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.
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Renato Dulbecco
People; Nobel Prize winners
Italian virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 with Howard M. Temin and David Baltimore, both of whom had studied under him.
Christian Rene de Duve
People; Nobel Prize winners
Belgian cytologist and biochemist who discovered lysosomes (the digestive organelles of the cell) and peroxisomes (organelles that are the site of metabolic processes involving hydrogen ...
Sir John Carew Eccles
People; Nobel Prize winners
Australian research physiologist who received (with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the chemical means by which impulses are ...
Gerald Maurice Edelman
People; Nobel Prize winners
American physician and physical chemist who elucidated the structure of antibodies—proteins that are produced by the body in response to infection. For this work he shared the Nobel Prize for ...
Antonio Egas Moniz
People; Nobel Prize winners
Portuguese neurologist and statesman who was the founder of modern psychosurgery. With Walter Hess he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the development of ...
Paul Ehrlich
People; Nobel Prize winners
German medical scientist known for his pioneering work in hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy and for his discovery of the first effective treatment for syphilis. He received jointly with ...
Manfred Eigen
People; Nobel Prize winners
German physicist who was corecipient, with R.G.W. Norrish and George Porter, of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on extremely rapid chemical reactions.
