Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994

Alfred G. Gilman

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Prize share: 1/2

Martin Rodbell

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994 was awarded jointly to Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells"

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