Eminent NIHers Gallery
NIH researchers have made major contributions to health and basic medical science for more than 100 years. These include more than 20 winners of the Nobel Prize, more than 30 winners of the Lasker Award, and more than 200 members of the prestigious U.S. National Academies. The NIH Legends Collection is a project to gather oral, video, and peer-reviewed written histories, obituaries, biographies, and photographs of these remarkable individuals.
The cards below include the dates the individual was active at the NIH, their Institute or Center, prestigious awards, and research topics. Please click on these cards to learn more about their work and access further resources.
We hope this growing collection provides a more in-depth perspective of a select group of NIH researchers of years past. For a complete list of active NIH principal investigators, refer to https://irp.nih.gov/pi.
Please note that NIH History Office does not own most of the resources gathered in this collection, and many items may be copyrighted.
1969- Present | Clinical Center | Nobel Prize for Medicine 2020 | Hepatitis B and C, Blood Transfusion Structure
1950-1981 | NHLBI, NIDDK | Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1972 | Protein Structure, Protein Folding
1949-2004 | NHLBI, NIMH | 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Neurotransmitter Reuptake, Catecholamines, Melatonin
1957-1964 | NCI | 1976 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine | Hepatitis B, Astrobiology
1954-2016 | NINDS | 1982 Lasker Award | Hereditary Metabolic Storage Diseases, Enzyme Replacement Therapy
1970-1997 | NINDS | 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Prion Disease, Unconventional Viruses
1957-1971 | Hygenic Laboratory | Bacteriology, Vaccine Research, Typhus, Cholera, Whooping Cough
1956-1994 | NHLBI, NIEHS | 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Molecular Endocrinology
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