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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Daniel I. Arnon	Biologist	14-Nov-1910	20-Dec-1994	Photophosphorylation
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi	Scientist	30-Jul-1947		Co-Discoverer of HIV
Richard Bloch	Business	15-Feb-1926	21-Jul-2004	H&R Block, cancer activist
Ananda M. Chakrabarty	Scientist	4-Apr-1938		Oil-eating bacteria
Naomi C. Earp	Government	c. 1950		Chairman of the EEOC, 2006-08
Donald M. Engelman	Biologist	c. 1941		Biochemistry Professor at Yale
Carol W. Greider	Scientist	15-Apr-1961		Co-Discoverer of telomerase
Margaret A. Hamburg	Government	1955		FDA Commissioner
Bernadine P. Healy	Doctor	4-Aug-1944		President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001
Johannes Holtfreter	Zoologist	9-Jan-1901	13-Nov-1992	Chemotaxis
Michael M. E. Johns	Educator	c. 1941		Chancellor, Emory University
Albert Lasker	Business	1-May-1880	30-May-1952	Advertising executive and medical research patron
Mary Lasker	Activist	30-Nov-1900	21-Feb-1994	Health care advocate
Vernon R. Loucks, Jr.	Business	c. 1935		CEO of Baxter International, 1980-99
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
Antonia C. Novello	Doctor	23-Aug-1944		US Surgeon General, 1990-93
Cecil B. Pickett	Biologist	c. 1949		President of R&D, Biogen Idec
Jack W. Szostak	Scientist	9-Nov-1952		First artificial chromosome
Harold E. Varmus	Scientist	18-Dec-1939		Genetic causes of cancer
Craig Venter	Scientist	14-Oct-1946		Sequenced own genome
Ada E. Yonath	Scientist	22-Jun-1939		Cryocrystallography

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