The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964
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Konrad Bloch
Prize share: 1/2
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Feodor Lynen
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964 was awarded jointly to Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"
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