C. B. Van Niel
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 40 years ago |
| Date of birth | November 4,1897 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Haarlem |
| Netherlands | |
| Date of died | March 10,1985 |
| Died | Carmel-by-the-Sea |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Field | Microbiology |
| Academic advisor | Albert Kluyver |
| Education | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) |
| Stanford University | |
| Awards | National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences |
| Leeuwenhoek Medal | |
| Rumford Prize | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1492070 |
C. B. Van Niel Life story
Cornelius Bernardus van Niel was a Dutch-American microbiologist. He introduced the study of general microbiology to the United States and made key discoveries explaining the chemistry of photosynthesis.