The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1955
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Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1955 was awarded to Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"
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