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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976

"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
Baruch S. Blumberg D. Carleton Gajdusek
Baruch S. Blumberg D. Carleton Gajdusek
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA
The Institute for Cancer Research
Philadelphia, PA, USA		 National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
b. 1925 b. 1923
d. 2008
 
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