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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959

"for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Severo Ochoa Arthur Kornberg
Severo Ochoa Arthur Kornberg
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA
New York University, College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
b. 1905
(in Luarca, Spain)
d. 1993
b. 1918
d. 2007
 
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