The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

Sydney Brenner

Prize share: 1/3

H. Robert Horvitz

Prize share: 1/3

John E. Sulston

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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