Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

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Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers that have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.

The Prize was established at the bequest of S. Gross Horwitz and is named to honor his mother. The prize was first awarded in 1967.

Out of 74 Prize Recipients, 39(53%) have won Nobel Prize in Medicine(29) or Chemistry(10) subsequently. [1]It is regarded as one of the important precursors of future Nobel Prize award.

Recipients

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1. ^ As of 2006.

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Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Its main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
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Biology (from Greek: βίος, bio, "life"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge"), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the scientific study of life.
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Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms.[1] The word "biochemistry" comes from the Greek word βιοχημεία biochēmeia, which means "the chemistry of life.
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Luis Federico Leloir

An early photograph of Leloir in his twenties
Born September 06 1906(1906--)
Paris, France
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Har Gobind Khorana
Born January 9 1922 (1922--) (age 85)
Raipur, Multan, Punjab, British India
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg (born April 10, 1927) is a U.S. biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis.
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Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.

Biography

Max Delbrück was born in Berlin, Germany.
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Salvador Edward Luria

Born August 13, 1912
Turin, Italy
Died February 6, 1991
Lexington, Massachusetts
Nationality  Italy
 United States
Field Molecular biology
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Albert Claude (August 24 1899 – May 22 1983) was a Belgian biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. He studied medicine at the University of Liege (Belgium).
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George Emil Palade (b. November 19, 1912, in Iaşi, Romania) is a Romanian-born American cell biologist. In 1974, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, for his discoveries concerning the structure and function of
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KeithPorter (1912-1997) was a Canadian cell biologist. He did pioneering biology research using electron microscopy of cells [1], such as work on the 9 + 2 microtubule structure in the axoneme of cilia.
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Hugh Esmor Huxley FRS (born February 25 1924) British biologist. He is professor of biology at Brandeis University, in Massachusetts, United States.

He received his PhD from Christ's College, Cambridge. He is most noted for his study of the structure of muscle.
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Stephen William Kuffler (born August 24, 1913; died October 11, 1980) was a Hungarian-American neurophysiologist. He founded the Harvard Neurobiology department in 1966, and made seminal contributions to our understanding of vision, neural coding, and the neural implementation of
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Renato Dulbecco (born February 22, 1914) is an Italian-born virologist who won a 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on reverse transcriptase.In 1973,he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Theodore Puck and Harry
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Theodore Puck (born September 24, 1916 - died November 6, 2005) was an American geneticist born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Chicago public schools and obtained his bachelors and masters degree from the University of Chicago.
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Boris Ephrussi (May 9 1901–May 2 1979) was a French geneticist of Russian origin. He was one of the many famous Jewish life scientists. He had published two papers in November 1966 which represented a key step in a decade of research in his laboratory.
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Sune Karl Bergström (born January 10, 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden; died August 15, 2004) was a Swedish biochemist. In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden.
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Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born May 21, 1934) is a Swedish biochemist.

He was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden and studied at Stockholm University, where he became a professor in 1967. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R.
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Seymour Benzer (born October 15, 1921) is an accomplished American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.

Research

Molecular biology

Seymour Benzer started his career as a solid state physicist at Purdue University. After completing his Ph.
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Charles Yanofsky
Born March 17 1925 (1925--) (age 82)
New York
Nationality USA
Field Genetics
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Michael Heidelberger (April 29, 1888 - June 25, 1991) was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins.
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Elvin Abraham Kabat (September 1, 1914–June 16, 2000) was an American biomedical scientist who is considered one of the founding fathers of modern quantitative immunochemistry together with his mentor Michael Heidelberger.
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David Hunter Hubel (born February 27, 1926) was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W.
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Vernon B. Mountcastle (born July 15, 1918 in Shelbyville, Kentucky) is a retired neuroscientist from the Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s.
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Torsten Nils Wiesel (b. June 3, 1924) was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W.
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Walter Gilbert

Born March 21 1932 (1932--) (age 75)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Frederick Sanger

Born July 13 1918 (1918--) (age 89)
Gloucestershire, England
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César Milstein

Born September 08 1927(1927--)
Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Died March 24 2002 (aged 76)
Cambridge, England
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Aaron Klug

Born July 11 1926 (1926--) (age 81)
, Lithuania
Nationality  United Kingdom
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Barbara McClintock

Born May 16 1902(1902--)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Died September 2 1992 (aged 90)
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