Biologists Posters and Prints, pg 2/3
for the science classroom, home schoolers, science education scholars.

Francois Jacob
b. 6-17-1920; France

Biochemist Francois Jacob was shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques-Lucien Monad and Andre Lwoff “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”.

• The Statue Within: An Autobiography by Francois Jacob

Har Gobind Khorana
b. 1-9-1922; British India

Molecular biologist Har Gobind Khorana was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”.

• Chemical Biology: Selected Papers of H. Gobind Khorana

Dr. Robert Koch,
b. 12-11-1843; Germany
d. 5-27-1910

Robert Koch, a German physician, was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in Medicine for “for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis”.

He is considered one of the founders of microbiology for isolating the Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the cholera vibrio (1883).

• Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine and Bacteriology

Did you know that Julius Richard Petri is generally credited for inventing the Petri dish while working as assistant to Robert Koch?

Joshua Lederberg
b. 5-23-1925; Montclair, NJ

Joshua Lederberg is a molecular biologist awarded half the 1958 Nobel Prize “for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria”. (George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum each was awarded one quarter of the 1958 Prize.)

Lederberg is also known for his work exobiology, an interdisciplinary study of life in space, incompassing astronomy, biology and geology.

• Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch tradesman and scientist, is considered the “Father of Microbiology”.
b. 10-24-1632; The Netherlands
d. 8-30-1723

• Microscope - Inventions that Changed the World poster series

Edward B. Lewis,
b. 5-20-1918; Pennsylvania
d. 7-21-2004

Edward B. Lewis was a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development” with Christiane Musslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus.

• Genes, Development and Cancer: The Life and Work of Edward B. Lewis

Fritz Lipmann
b. 6-12-1899; Germany
d. 7-24-1986

Lipmann was a biochemist who shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism”. The 1953 Prize was shared with Hans Adolf Krebs (Krebs cycle).

• Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2

Salvador Edward Luria
b. 8-13-1912; Italy
d. 2-6-1991; Lexington, MA

Salvador Luria was a microbiologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1969 with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey “for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”.

• Life, The Unfinished Experiment by Salvador Luria

Andre Lwoff
b. 5-8-1902; France
b. 9-30-1994;

Microbiologist Andre Lwoff shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques-Lucien Monad and Francois Jacob “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”.

Feodor Lynen
b. 4-6-1911; Germany
d. 8-6-1979; Munich

Biochemist Feodor Lynen shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 with Konrad Bloch “for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.”

Elie Metchnikoff (Ilya Ilich Mechnikov)
b. 5-16-1845; Russia
d. 7-15-1916; Paris

Elie Metchnikoff, a microbiologist best remembered for his pioneering research into the immune system, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908 for his work on phagocytosis.

Otto Fritz Meyerhof
b. 4-12-1884; Germany
d. 10-6-1951

Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a physician and biochemist who was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Medicine “for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle”. Meyerhof shared the prize with Archibald Vivian Hill.

Jacques-Lucien Monod
b. 2-9-1910; France
d. 5-31-1976

Jacques-Lucien Monod was a biochemist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis” with Francois Jacob and Andre Lwoff.

• Origins of Molecular Biology: A Tribute to Jacques Monod