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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958

"for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
"for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"
George Wells Beadle Edward Lawrie Tatum Joshua Lederberg
George Wells Beadle Edward Lawrie Tatum Joshua Lederberg
quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA USA
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA, USA
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
New York, NY, USA
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
b. 1903
d. 1989
b. 1909
d. 1975
b. 1925
d. 2008
 

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