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184:In 1969 he was appointed associate professor at
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700:"March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology"
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181:in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.
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361:Who's who in Science and Engineering
387:"Walter Jakob Gehring (1939–2014)"
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345:"Louis-Jeantet Prize, Year: 1987"
254:and their ancestors, but also in
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286:Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
107:Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
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322:A.O. Kovalevsky Medal
190:developmental biology
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1101:Walter Jakob Gehring
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135:University of Zurich
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