Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975

David Baltimore

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Prize share: 1/3

Renato Dulbecco

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Prize share: 1/3

Howard Martin Temin

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975 was awarded jointly to David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Martin Temin "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"

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