The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977

Roger Guillemin

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Prize share: 1/4

Andrew V. Schally

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Prize share: 1/4

Rosalyn Yalow

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 was divided, one half jointly to Roger Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain" and the other half to Rosalyn Yalow "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones."

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