The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982

Sune K. Bergström

Prize share: 1/3

Bengt I. Samuelsson

Prize share: 1/3

John R. Vane

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982 was awarded jointly to Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances."

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