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Scientists at Research Institutes in Heidelberg Nobel Laureates affiliated with Heidelberg SCIENTISTS AT RESEARCH INSTITUTES IN HEIDELBERG Laureate Nobel Prize Career Phase in Heidelberg Field & Year 1 Prof. Dr. Sir Peter Mansfield Medicine · 2003 1972 - 1973 Senior-Visitor at the Max Plank Institute (MPI) for Medical Research in Heidelberg Prof. Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba Physics · 2002 Humboldt Research Award winner, research visit at MPI for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg2 Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Medicine · 1995 1978 - 1980 Head of Research Group at European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg3 4 Prof. Dr. Eric F. Wieschaus Medicine · 1995 1978 - 1981 Head of Research Group at EMBL in Heidelberg Prof. Dr. George Wald Medicine · 1967 1932 - 1933 Research Associate under Meyerhof and Warburg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for Medical Research in Heidelberg5 Prof. Dr. André Michel Lwoff Medicine · 1965 1932 - 1933 Research Associate under Meyerhof at the KWI for Medical Research in Heidelberg6 7 Prof. Dr. Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer Physics · 1961 1955 - 1957 Research Associate at the MPI for Medical Research in Heidelberg Prof. Dr. Severo Ochoa Medicine · 1959 1929 - 1931 Research Associate under Meyerhof 8 1936 - 1937 Visiting Research Scholar at the KWI for Medical Research in Heidelberg Prof. Dr. Fritz Albert Lipmann Medicine · 1953 1927 - 1930 Post-Doc under Meyerhof at the KWI for Medical Research in Heidelberg, later MPI9 Communications and Marketing · Latest revision May 2015 BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2003/mansfield-cv.html (14 January 2010) 2 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2002/koshiba-bio.html (07 April 2015) 3 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1995/nusslein-volhard-autobio.html (19 November 2009) 4 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1995/wieschaus-autobio.html (03 December 2009) 5 Kazemi, M. (2003): Nobelpreisträger in der Kaiser-Wilhelm-/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, in: Tätigkeitsbericht 2003, 7. (http://www.mpg.de/bilderBerichteDokumente/dokumentation/jahrbuch/2003/archiv_geschichte_mpg/forschungsSchwerpunkt/pdf.pdf). 6 Kazemi, M. (2003): ibid., 7. 7 Kazemi, M. (2003): ibid., 6. 8 Kazemi, M. (2003): ibid., 6. 9 Kazemi, M. (2003): ibid., 6. Communications and Marketing · Latest revision May 2015 .
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