The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
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Sydney Brenner
Prize share: 1/3
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H. Robert Horvitz
Prize share: 1/3
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John E. Sulston
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 was awarded jointly to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"
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