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List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine

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Year Names Discoveries
1993 Richard J. Roberts
Phillip A. Sharp
"for their discoveries of split genes"
1992 Edmond H. Fischer
Edwin G. Krebs
"for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism"
1991 Erwin Neher
Bert Sakmann
"for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
1990 Joseph E. Murray
E. Donnall Thomas
"for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease"
1989 J. Michael Bishop
Harold E. Varmus
"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"
1988 Sir James W. Black
Gertrude B. Elion
George H. Hitchings
"for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
1987 Susumu Tonegawa
"for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"
1986 Stanley Cohen
Rita Levi-Montalcini
"for their discoveries of growth factors"
1985 Michael S. Brown
Joseph L. Goldstein
"for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism"
1984 Niels K. Jerne
Georges J.F. Kohler
Cesar Milstein
"for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"