Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner was born on13 January 1927, he is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston.  Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council Unit in Cambridge, England.

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Thomas H Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born on September 25, 1866, he was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role the chromosome plays in heredity. He died on December 4, 1945.

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Susumu Tonegawa

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Susumu Tonegawa was born on September 6, 1939, a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity. 

Richard A. Lerner

Richard A. Lerner  was born 28 August 1938, he is an American research chemist. Best known for his work on catalytic antibodies. He served as President of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) until January 1, 2012

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Paul Kammerer

Paul Kammerer was born on August 17, 1880, he was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated the now largely abandoned Lamarckian theory of inheritance(the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired in their lifetime). He died on September 23, 1926. 

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Francoise Barre - Sinoussi

Francoise Barre - Sinoussi was born 30 July 1947. She  is a French virologist and director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France and performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS.