List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine
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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 | "The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section"