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Born May 3, 1860 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died March 14, 1936 or March 15, 1936 • Oxford • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1934)
Subjects Of Study gas exchange • coal mining • mine gas • safety

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Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
J.B.S. Haldane.
J.B.S. Haldane
British geneticist
Jacob Moleschott
Dutch-Italian physiologist and philosopher
Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis
French philosopher and physiologist
Diogenes Of Apollonia
Greek philosopher
Alcmaeon
Greek philosopher and physiologist
Hippon
Greek philosopher
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist

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