The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974

Albert Claude

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Prize share: 1/3

Christian de Duve

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Prize share: 1/3

George E. Palade

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 was awarded jointly to Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell"

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