Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986

Stanley Cohen

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Prize share: 1/2

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986 was awarded jointly to Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini "for their discoveries of growth factors"

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