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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Maurice Hilleman
Maurice Hilleman
American microbiologist
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist and botanist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners
Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Carl Woese
American microbiologist
Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist
Charles Yanofsky
American geneticist
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Félix d’ Hérelle
Canadian microbiologist
Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
American physician and microbiologist
Alice Evans
American scientist
John Franklin Enders
American microbiologist
Dmitry Ivanovsky
Russian microbiologist
René Dubos
American microbiologist

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