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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
J. Michael Bishop Harold E. Varmus
half 1/2 of the prize half 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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