The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
© The Nobel Foundation Photo: U. Montan
Bruce A. Beutler
Prize share: 1/4
© The Nobel Foundation Photo: U. Montan
Jules A. Hoffmann
Prize share: 1/4
Photo: The Rockefeller University
Ralph M. Steinman
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 was divided, one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
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