The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993

Richard J. Roberts

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Prize share: 1/2

Phillip A. Sharp

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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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