Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1920
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Schack August Steenberg Krogh
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1920 was awarded to Schack August Steenberg Krogh "for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism"
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