The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993
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Richard J. Roberts
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Phillip A. Sharp
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 was awarded jointly to Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp "for their discoveries of split genes"
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