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List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine

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"The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section"
Year Names Discoveries
1949 Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
"for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses"
1948 Paul Hermann Muller
"for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods"
1947 Carl Ferdinand Cori
Gerty Theresa Cori, nee Radnitz
"for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen"
1947 Bernardo Alberto Houssay
"for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"
1946 Hermann Joseph Muller
"for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation"
1945 Sir Alexander Fleming
Ernst Boris Chain
Sir Howard Walter Florey
"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
1944 Joseph Erlanger
Herbert Spencer Gasser
"for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
1943 Henrik Carl Peter Dam
"for his discovery of vitamin K"
1943 Edward Adelbert Doisy
"for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K"
1942