Awards

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN MEDICINE OR PHYSIOLOGY

1980
Baruj Benacerraf (United States, born in Venezuela), George Snell (United States), and Jean Dausset (France) for their studies of antigens, the protein-carbohydrate complexes found on every cell membrane of the body, leading to the development of rules for the transplantability of human organs, explanations of the body's immunology system, and development of transplant immunology.

1981
David H. Hubel (Canadian-born American) and Torsten Wiesel (Sweden) for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; and Roger W. Sperry (United States) for his discovery concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres of the brain,

1982
Sune Bergstrom (Sweden), Bengt Samuelsson (Sweden), and John R. Vane (Great Britain) for their discoveries concerning...

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