Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001

Leland H. Hartwell

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Prize share: 1/3

Tim Hunt

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Prize share: 1/3

Sir Paul M. Nurse

Photo: Ralf Petterson, KI. Nobel Foundation archive

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 was awarded jointly to Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"

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