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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972

"for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies"
Gerald M. Edelman Rodney R. Porter
Gerald M. Edelman Rodney R. Porter
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA United Kingdom
Rockefeller University
New York, NY, USA		 University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
b. 1929 b. 1917
d. 1985
 
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