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American microbiologist (1901-1982)

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René Jules Dubos was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book So Human An Animal.

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1981Eugène Carrière Prize
1976Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
1975Cullum Geographical Medal
1969Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1964AMA Scientific Achievement Award
1961George M. Kober Lectureship
1960Robert Koch Prize
1960honorary doctor of the University of Lille
1958Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize
1950doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
1948Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
1941E. Mead Johnson Award

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René Jules Dubos was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is credited for having made famous the environmental maxim: "Think globally, act locally." Aside from a period from 1942 to 1944 when he was George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology and professor of tropical medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, his scientific career was spent entirely at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, later renamed The Rockefeller University.

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Lived 1901 to 1982 · aged 81
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