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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959
"for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Severo Ochoa
Arthur Kornberg
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
USA
USA
New York University, College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
b. 1905
(in Luarca, Spain)
d. 1993
b. 1918
d. 2007
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