Linda Brown Buck is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She began postdoctoral research at Columbia University in 1980 and in 1982 joined the laboratory of Richard Axel at the Institute of Cancer Research there. Later that year she became an assistant professor in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School, where she established her own laboratory. She is now a Full Member of the Basic Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and an Affiliate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel, for their work on olfactory receptors.
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Linda Brown Buck (born January 29, 1947)
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is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system
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She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel
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She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel
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is an American biologist
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is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system
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Buck began postdoctoral research at Columbia University
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Buck became an assistant professor in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School
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an Affiliate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington, Seattle
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best known for her work on the olfactory system
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