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Charles Drew
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Charles Drew
Doctor, Surgeon / 1904 - 1950
Charles Drew was an African-American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.
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Baruch S. Blumberg
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- Columbia University Alumni
- Famous Scientists
Baruch S. Blumberg
Doctor, Scientist / 1925 - 2011
Baruch Blumberg won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his research into the origins and spread of infectious viral diseases, particularly hepatitis B.
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Charles H. Best
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- Famous Academics
- Famous Pisceans
Charles H. Best
Academic, Physiologist / 1899 - 1978
Charles H. Best was a physiologist and medical researcher who co-discovered the use of insulin as a treatment for diabetes.
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Gertrude B. Elion
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- Famous Chemists
Gertrude B. Elion
Chemist / 1918 - 1999
American biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude B. Elion helped develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent kidney transplant rejection. She won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988.
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Barry J. Marshall
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- Famous Scientists
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Barry J. Marshall
Doctor, Scientist / 1951 -
Nobel Prize-winning physician Barry J. Marshall discovered that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria, and can be treated with antibiotics.
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James D. Watson
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- Famous Arians
- Famous Biologists
James D. Watson
Academic, Biologist, Geneticist, Zoologist / 1928 -
James D. Watson is a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and researcher credited with co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.
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