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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995

"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
Edward B. Lewis Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Eric F. Wieschaus
Edward B. Lewis Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Eric F. Wieschaus
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA Federal Republic of Germany USA
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA, USA		 Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie
Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany		 Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
b. 1918
d. 2004		 b. 1942 b. 1947
 
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