List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine
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Year | Names | Discoveries |
1966 |
Charles Brenton Huggins |
"for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer" |
1965 |
Francois Jacob Andre Lwoff Jacques Monod |
"for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" |
1964 |
Konrad Bloch Feodor Lynen |
"for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism" |
1963 |
Sir John Carew Eccles Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Andrew Fielding Huxley |
"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane" |
1962 |
Francis Harry Compton Crick James Dewey Watson Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins |
"for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material" |
1961 |
Georg von Bekesy |
"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea" |
1960 |
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet Peter Brian Medawar |
"for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance" |
1959 |
Severo Ochoa Arthur Kornberg |
"for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" |
1958 |
George Wells Beadle Edward Lawrie Tatum |
"for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events" |
1958 |
Joshua Lederberg |
"for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria" |