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Harold E. Varmus
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Harold E. Varmus

Founder · Public Library of Science · born December 18, 1939

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Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.

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  1. ~43Received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1982
  2. ~50Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1989
  3. 60Founded Public Library of ScienceOctober 1, 2000
  4. ~62Received the National Medal of Science2001

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