Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000

Arvid Carlsson

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Prize share: 1/3

Paul Greengard

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Prize share: 1/3

Eric R. Kandel

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 was awarded jointly to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric R. Kandel "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"

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