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List of Nobel Laureates in Medicine

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Year Names Discoveries
1975 David Baltimore
Renato Dulbecco
Howard Martin Temin
"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"
1974 Albert Claude
Christian de Duve
George E. Palade
"for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell"
1973 Karl von Frisch
Konrad Lorenz
Nikolaas Tinbergen
"for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns"
1972 Gerald M. Edelman
Rodney R. Porter
"for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies"
1971 Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
"or his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones"
1970 Sir Bernard Katz
Ulf von Euler
Julius Axelrod
"for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation"
1969 Max Delbruck
Alfred D. Hershey
Salvador E. Luria
"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"
1968 Robert W. Holley
Har Gobind Khorana
Marshall W. Nirenberg
"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"
1967 Ragnar Granit
Haldan Keffer Hartline
George Wald
"for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"
1966 Peyton Rous
"for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses"