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- Dr. J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize–winning scientist and chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, died in San Francisco at age 90 from pneumonia.
- He joined the University of California, San Francisco faculty in 1968.
- He was one of only two Nobel laureates to hold the University of California system chancellor position.
- He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus for oncogenes.
