Biology

Sándor Polgár

Several well-known teachers taught me, and then I also stood at the chair. I discovered a rare species of orchid - in a very...

George David Wald

I was born in New York. As a physiologist and nerobiologist, I received a shared Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1967, for my discovery...

Otto Heinrich Warburg

I was born in Freiburg. As a biochemist, I received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1931, for the research of cell...

John Robert Vane

I was born in England, to a family of Russian emigrants. Along with my fellow researchers, I received a shared Nobel Prize in Medicine...

Selman Abraham Waksman

I was born to a Ukrainian Jewish family in the village of Nova Priluka. I discovered 15 antibiotics, and also gave them the name...

Joshua Lederberg

I was born in New Jersey. As a molecular genetician, along with my fellow researchers, I obtained the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1958,...

Howard Martin Temin

I was born in Philadelphia. Along with my fellow researchers, I received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1975, for discovering the enzyme necessary...

Michael Stuart Brown

I was born in Brooklyn. Along with my fellow researcher, I received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1985, for discovering cholesterol metabolism.1941.4.13 -...

Stanley Cohen

I was born in New York, to a family of Russian Jewish emigrants. Along with my fellow researcher, Rita Levi-Montalcini, I received a shared...

David Baltimore

I was born in New York, to a family of traders. My father was an Orthodox Jew, my mother was an Atheist. In spite...