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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1982

"for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances"
Sune K. Bergström Bengt I. Samuelsson John R. Vane
Sune K. Bergström Bengt I. Samuelsson John R. Vane
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
Sweden Sweden United Kingdom
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden		 Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden		 The Wellcome Research Laboratories
Beckenham, United Kingdom
b. 1916
d. 2004		 b. 1934 b. 1927
d. 2004
 
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