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My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

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Daniel Nathans
Age: 71 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 30
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Biochemist
Microbiologist
Wilmington
Delaware
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