Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
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Albert Claude
Prize share: 1/3
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Christian de Duve
Prize share: 1/3
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George E. Palade
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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