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List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine

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Year Names Discoveries
2003 Paul C. Lauterbur
Sir Peter Mansfield
"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
2002 Sydney Brenner
H. Robert Horvitz
John E. Sulston
"for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
2001 Leland H. Hartwell
R. Timothy (Tim) Hunt
Sir Paul M. Nurse
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
2000 Arvid Carlsson
Paul Greengard
Eric R. Kandel
"for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"
1999 Gunter Blobel
"for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"
1998 Robert F. Furchgott
Louis J. Ignarro
Ferid Murad
"for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system"
1997 Stanley B. Prusiner
"for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection"
1996 Peter C. Doherty
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"
1995 Edward B. Lewis
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Eric F. Wieschaus
"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
1994 Alfred G. Gilman
Martin Rodbell
"for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells"