The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

Sydney Brenner

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Prize share: 1/3

H. Robert Horvitz

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Prize share: 1/3

John E. Sulston

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 was awarded jointly to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"

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