The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980

Baruj Benacerraf

Prize share: 1/3

Jean Dausset

Prize share: 1/3

George D. Snell

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980 was awarded jointly to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George D. Snell "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions."

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