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Nobel Laureates in Physiology or <strong>Medicine</strong> 427<br />

Year Laureate(s) Discovery<br />

1984 Niels K. Jerne (1911–1994; Denmark) Jerne: regulatory mechanisms <strong>of</strong> antibody production <strong>and</strong> function<br />

Georges J. F. Köhler (1946–1995; Germany) Köhler <strong>and</strong> Milstein: monoclonal antibodies (MAbs)<br />

César Milstein (1927–2002; Argentina)<br />

1983 Barbara McClintock (1902–1992; USA) mobile genetic elements <strong>and</strong> genetic instability<br />

1982 Sune K. Bergström (1916–2004; Sweden) prostagl<strong>and</strong>ins<br />

Bengt I. Samuelsson (b. 1934; Sweden)<br />

John R. Vane (1927–2004; UK)<br />

1981 Roger W. Sperry (1913–1994; USA) Sperry: specialized differences in the functions <strong>of</strong> the brain’s<br />

David H. Hubel (b. 1926; USA)<br />

hemispheres<br />

Torsten N. Wiesel (b. 1924; Sweden) Hubel <strong>and</strong> Weisel: mechanisms through which the brain’s visual cortex<br />

receives <strong>and</strong> interprets visual signals<br />

1980 Baruj Benacerraf (b. 1920; USA) genetic regulation <strong>of</strong> major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens<br />

Jean Dausset (b. 1916; France)<br />

George D. Snell (1903–1996; USA)<br />

1979 Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998; USA) computed tomography (CT) scanning<br />

Godfrey N. Hounsfield (1919–2004; UK)<br />

1978 Werner Arber (b. 1929; Switzerl<strong>and</strong>) restrictive enzymes <strong>and</strong> their roles in genetic functions<br />

Daniel Nathans (1928–1999; USA)<br />

Hamilton O. Smith (b. 1931; USA)<br />

1977 Roger Guillemin (b. 1924; USA) Guillemin <strong>and</strong> Schally: hypothalamus production <strong>of</strong> “releasing<br />

Andrew V. Schally (b. 1926; USA)<br />

hormones” that direct the functions <strong>of</strong> other endocrine gl<strong>and</strong>s<br />

Rosalyn Yalow (b. 1921; USA)<br />

Yalow: radioimmunoassays to detect levels <strong>of</strong> peptide hormones in the<br />

blood circulation<br />

1976 Baruch S. Blumberg (b. 1925; USA) mechanisms through which infectious diseases originate <strong>and</strong> perpetuate<br />

D. Carleton Gajdusek (b. 1923; USA)<br />

1975 David Baltimore (b. 1938; USA) mechanisms by which viruses interact with cell DNA <strong>and</strong> RNA to cause<br />

Renato Dulbecco (b. 1914; USA)<br />

transformations that result in tumor development <strong>and</strong> growth<br />

Howard M. Temin (1934–1994; USA)<br />

1974 Albert Claude (1899–1983; Belgium) cell components <strong>and</strong> composition <strong>and</strong> their effects on cell structure <strong>and</strong><br />

Christian de Duve (b. 1917; Belgium) function<br />

George E. Palade (b. 1912; USA)<br />

1973 Karl von Frisch (1886–1982; Germany) patterns <strong>of</strong> personal behaviors <strong>and</strong> social interactions as they relate to<br />

Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989; Austria)<br />

healthy <strong>and</strong> unhealthy psychosocial states<br />

Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907–1988; UK)<br />

1972 Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1929; USA) chemical structures <strong>of</strong> antibody molecules<br />

Rodney R. Porter (1917–1985; UK)

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