J. Michael Bishop

Nobel Prize lecture

Retroviruses and Oncogenes II

J. Michael Bishop held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1989, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Nils Ringertz, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

Retroviruses and Oncogenes II

J. Michael Bishop held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1989, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Nils Ringertz, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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