The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976

Baruch S. Blumberg

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Prize share: 1/2

D. Carleton Gajdusek

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 was awarded jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"

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