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NIH Eminent Scientist Profiles

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Alter, Harvey J.
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Anfinsen, Christian
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Julius Axelrod

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Julius Axelrod, Ph.D., was best known for his work on brain chemistry in the early 1960s that led to modern-day treatments for depression and anxiety disorders, for which he shared one-third of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

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Blumberg, Baruch S.
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Gajdusek, D. Carleton
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Nirenberg, Marshall W.
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Rodbell, Martin
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Carleton D. Gajdusek

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D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D., was co-winner of a 1976 Nobel Prize for his work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious.

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Marshall Nirenberg

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Marshall Nirenberg is best known for “breaking the genetic code” in 1961, an achievement that won him the Nobel Prize.

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Martin Rodbell

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In a series of pioneering experiments conducted here at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Martin Rodbell and his colleagues discovered a mechanism that transformed our understanding of how cells respond to signals, by studying hormones—substances which have specific effects on cells' activity.
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