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                              Undergraduate Colleges / 
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                                  Notable Wisconsin faculty, former and current | 
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- Har Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine
 
- Joshua Lederberg , 1958
Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine
 
- Howard Martin Temin , 1975 Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of reverse transcriptase.
 
- James Thomson, credited with first successful culturing of human
embryonic stem cells.
 
- John Commons, one of the
architects of Social Security in the United States.
 
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