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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987

"for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"
Susumu Tonegawa
Susumu Tonegawa
Japan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, USA
b. 1939
 
 
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