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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980

"for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
Baruj Benacerraf Jean Dausset George D. Snell
Baruj Benacerraf Jean Dausset George D. Snell
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA France USA
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA		 Université de Paris, Laboratoire Immuno-Hématologie
Paris, France		 Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME, USA
b. 1920
(in Caracas, Venezuela)		 b. 1916 b. 1903
d. 1996
 
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