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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997

"for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection"
Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner
USA
University of California School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA, USA
b. 1942
 
 
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