The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
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Peter Agre
Prize share: 1/2
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Roderick MacKinnon
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 was awarded "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes" jointly with one half to Peter Agre "for the discovery of water channels" and with one half to Roderick MacKinnon "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels."
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