The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984

Niels K. Jerne

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Prize share: 1/3

Georges J.F. Köhler

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César Milstein

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984 was awarded jointly to Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler and César Milstein "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies."

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