Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972

Gerald M. Edelman

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Prize share: 1/2

Rodney R. Porter

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 was awarded jointly to Gerald M. Edelman and Rodney R. Porter "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies"

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