The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958

George Wells Beadle

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Prize share: 1/4

Edward Lawrie Tatum

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Prize share: 1/4

Joshua Lederberg

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 was divided, one half jointly to George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events" and the other half to Joshua Lederberg "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria."

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