The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999
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Günter Blobel
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 was awarded to Günter Blobel "for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"
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