Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud
James E. Rothman
Prize share: 1/3
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud
Randy W. Schekman
Prize share: 1/3
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud
Thomas C. Südhof
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"
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