The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992
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Edmond H. Fischer
Prize share: 1/2
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Edwin G. Krebs
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992 was awarded jointly to Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism"
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