Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931

Otto Heinrich Warburg

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931 was awarded to Otto Heinrich Warburg "for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme"

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