All Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 116 times to 232 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2025. Click on the links to get more information.


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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989

“for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988

“for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987

“for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985

“for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984

“for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983

“for her discovery of mobile genetic elements”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982

“for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981

“for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres”
“for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system”

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980

“for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”

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