Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980
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Baruj Benacerraf
Prize share: 1/3
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Jean Dausset
Prize share: 1/3
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George D. Snell
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980 was awarded jointly to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George D. Snell "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
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