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List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine

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Year Names Discoveries
1983 Barbara McClintock
"for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"
1982 Sune K. Bergstrom
Bengt I. Samuelsson
John R. Vane
"for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances"
1981 Roger W. Sperry
"for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres"
1981 David H. Hubel
Torsten N. Wiesel
"for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"
1980 Baruj Benacerraf
Jean Dausset
George D. Snell
"for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
1979 Allan M. Cormack
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
"for the development of computer assisted tomography"
1978 Werner Arber
Daniel Nathans
Hamilton O. Smith
"for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"
1977 Roger Guillemin
Andrew V. Schally
"for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"
1977 Rosalyn Yalow
"for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones"
1976 Baruch S. Blumberg
D. Carleton Gajdusek
"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"