The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969

Max Delbrück

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Prize share: 1/3

Alfred D. Hershey

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Prize share: 1/3

Salvador E. Luria

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 was awarded jointly to Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"

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