Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909
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Emil Theodor Kocher
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 was awarded to Emil Theodor Kocher "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland"
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