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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Christian Anfinsen	Chemist	26-Mar-1916	14-May-1995	Protein structure and folding
Daniel I. Arnon	Biologist	14-Nov-1910	20-Dec-1994	Photophosphorylation
Julius Axelrod	Chemist	30-May-1912	29-Dec-2004	Research of neurotransmitters
David Baltimore	Biologist	7-Mar-1938		Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi	Scientist	30-Jul-1947		Co-Discoverer of HIV
Baruj Benacerraf	Scientist	29-Oct-1920	2-Aug-2011	Gene control of HLA antigens
Paul Berg	Chemist	30-Jun-1926		Pioneer in recombinant DNA
Richard Bloch	Business	15-Feb-1926	21-Jul-2004	H&R Block, cancer activist
Michael S. Brown	Biologist	13-Apr-1941		Metabolism of cholesterol
Robert N. Butler	Doctor	21-Jan-1927	4-Jul-2010	Expert on aging
Ananda M. Chakrabarty	Scientist	4-Apr-1938		Oil-eating bacteria
Stanley N. Cohen	Biologist	17-Feb-1935		Recombinant DNA
Francis Collins	Scientist	14-Apr-1950		Human Genome Project
Michael DeBakey	Doctor	7-Sep-1908	11-Jul-2008	Father of cardiovascular surgery
Naomi C. Earp	Government	c. 1950		Chairman of the EEOC, 2006-08
Donald M. Engelman	Biologist	c. 1941		Biochemistry Professor at Yale
Joseph L. Goldstein	Scientist	18-Apr-1940		Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism
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	6-Aug-2011	President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001
Susan Hockfield	Educator	24-Mar-1951		President of MIT
Jules A. Hoffmann	Biologist	2-Aug-1941		Innate immunity
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
Roderick MacKinnon	Biologist	19-Feb-1956		Ion channels of cell membranes
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
Mario J. Molina	Chemist	19-Mar-1943		Ozone depletion
Antonia C. Novello	Doctor	23-Aug-1944		US Surgeon General, 1990-93
Cecil B. Pickett	Biologist	5-Oct-1945		Ezetrol, Singulair, and Vioxx
Albert Sabin	Biologist	26-Aug-1906	3-Mar-1993	Developed oral polio vaccine
K. Barry Sharpless	Chemist	28-Apr-1941		Chiral catalysts
Wendell M. Stanley	Chemist	16-Aug-1904	15-Jun-1971	First to crystallize a virus
William H. Stein	Chemist	25-Jun-1911	2-Feb-1980	Amino-acid analyzer
Leo Szilard	Physicist	11-Feb-1898	30-May-1964	Nuclear chain reaction
Jack W. Szostak	Scientist	9-Nov-1952		First artificial chromosome
Harold E. Varmus	Scientist	18-Dec-1939		Genetic causes of cancer
Craig Venter	Biologist	14-Oct-1946		Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell
James Watson	Scientist	6-Apr-1928		Co-Discoverer of DNA
Ada E. Yonath	Scientist	22-Jun-1939		Cryocrystallography

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