The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013

James E. Rothman

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Prize share: 1/3

Randy W. Schekman

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Prize share: 1/3

Thomas C. Südhof

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"

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