The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
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Leland H. Hartwell
Prize share: 1/3
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Tim Hunt
Prize share: 1/3
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Sir Paul M. Nurse
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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