Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992

Edmond H. Fischer

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Prize share: 1/2

Edwin G. Krebs

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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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