The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969
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Max Delbrück
Prize share: 1/3
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Alfred D. Hershey
Prize share: 1/3
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Salvador E. Luria
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 was awarded jointly to Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"
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