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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" "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
1941
1940
1939 Gerhard Domagk
"for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil"
1938 Corneille Jean Francois Heymans
"for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration"
1937 Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt
"for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"
1936 Sir Henry Hallett Dale
Otto Loewi
"for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses"
1935 Hans Spemann
"for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"
1934 George Hoyt Whipple
George Richards Minot
William Parry Murphy
"for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"
1933 Thomas Hunt Morgan
"for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity"
1932 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Edgar Douglas Adrian
"for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons"