Awards

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN MEDICINE OR PHYSIOLOGY

1990

Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas for their studies concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease.

1991

No American Winner

1992

Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.

1993

Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp for their discoveries of split genes.

1994

Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells.

1995

Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Niisslein-Volhard (Germany), and Eric F. Wieschaus for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development.

1996

No American...

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