The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906

Camillo Golgi

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Prize share: 1/2

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906 was awarded jointly to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"

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