Famous Category: Medicine

Carol Greider

Born 1961 Microbiologist; Nobel Prize in Medicine (2009) 🔊 Listen As a scientist, one has to intuit many different things that are going on at the same time and apply those to a particular problem. Perhaps my ability to pull more […]

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George M. Church

Born 1954 Geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist. 🔊 Listen Known for his work in the sequencing of genomes, in synthetic biology, in genome engineering,  and in an emerging area of neuroscience that proposes to map brain activity and establish a “functional […]

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Helen B. Taussig

1898-1986 Pediatric Cardiologist 🔊 Listen Helen Brooke Taussig is known as the founder of pediatric cardiology for her pioneering work developing a surgical shunt to treat “blue baby” syndrome. She also helped prevent a thalidomide birth defect crisis in the […]

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