The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978
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Werner Arber
Prize share: 1/3
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Daniel Nathans
Prize share: 1/3
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Hamilton O. Smith
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978 was awarded jointly to Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"
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