The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948 was awarded to Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins."

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