American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Hershey Chocolate Company (1894) and established the community of Hershey near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
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American microbiologist. He shared a 1969 Nobel Prize for investigating how viruses infect bacteria and replicate themselves. |
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