The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977
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Roger Guillemin
Prize share: 1/4
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Andrew V. Schally
Prize share: 1/4
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Rosalyn Yalow
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 was divided, one half jointly to Roger Guillemin and Andrew V. Schally "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain" and the other half to Rosalyn Yalow "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones"
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