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List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine

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Year Names Discoveries
1966 Charles Brenton Huggins
"for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer"
1965 Francois Jacob
Andre Lwoff
Jacques Monod
"for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"
1964 Konrad Bloch
Feodor Lynen
"for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"
1963 Sir John Carew Eccles
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Andrew Fielding Huxley
"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
1962 Francis Harry Compton Crick
James Dewey Watson
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
"for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
1961 Georg von Bekesy
"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Peter Brian Medawar
"for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
1959 Severo Ochoa
Arthur Kornberg
"for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
1958 George Wells Beadle
Edward Lawrie Tatum
"for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
1958 Joshua Lederberg
"for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"