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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989
"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"
J. Michael Bishop
Harold E. Varmus
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
USA
USA
University of California School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA, USA
University of California School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA, USA
b. 1936
b. 1939
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