Famous people died in April - page 5

Baruch Samuel Blumberg was a Jewish-American physician and geneticist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976

Sir Bernard Katz was a German born biophysicist who is known for his remarkable work on nerve biochemistry

Hugo von Mohl was a German botanist who was a major figure in the field of plant anatomy in the mid-19th century

George Wald was an American scientist and Nobel Laureate who is known for his work with pigments in the retina

Leonid Kantorovich was a Russian mathematician and economist

Daniel Bovet was a Nobel laureate pharmacologist who is known for discovering the chemotherapeutic agents

François Jacob was a French biologist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine’ in 1965

Guy Hamilton was an English film director who is best known for his James Bond films

Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist, who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Catherine Helen Spence was a Australian author, journalist, politician, and a leading suffragist