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Martinus W. Beijerinck
Martinus W. Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist and botanist
Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist
Baruch S. Blumberg, 1976.
Baruch S. Blumberg
American physician
Dmitry Ivanovsky
Russian microbiologist
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
American chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Heinz L. Fraenkel-Conrat
American biochemist
Peyton Rous.
Peyton Rous
American pathologist
Thomas Milton Rivers
American virologist
Wendell Stanley, 1970
Wendell Meredith Stanley
American biochemist
Benzer, Seymour
Seymour Benzer
American scientist
E.W. Goodpasture
American pathologist

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