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Robert Hooke
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
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s.XVIII
William Smith -
Jan Ingenhousz
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Robert Brown
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Walther Flemming
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Charles Darwin
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Gregor Mendel
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Friedrich Miescher
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Oscar Hertwig
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Richard Atmann
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León Teisserenc
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finals s.XIX- principis s.XX
Ernest Rutherford i Marie Curie, entre altres -
William H. Bayliss y Ernest H. Starling
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Richard Oldham
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Alexander Fleming
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Arne Tiselius
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Hans Krebs
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Melvin Calvin i Andrew Benson
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Frederick Vine i Drummond Matthews
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George Gey
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Rosalind Franklin (1952)
James Watson y Francis Crick (1953) -
Severo Ochoa
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Alfred Wegener i Marie Tharp
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Eugene Shoemaker
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Howard Temin i David Baltimore
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Morton Mandel i Akiko Higa
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Craig Mellows i Andrew Fire
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1987 decrit per Yoshizumi Ishino (CRISPR)
Al 2001 per Francisco Mojica i Ruud Jansen (CRISPR)
Fins 2012 Jennifer Doudna i Emmanuelle Charpentier o redisenyen