Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology

We have already featured a run down of the Nobel prize for Chemistry and the Nobel Prize for Physics, now we complete the scientific triptych with a listing of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.
 

2010 Robert G. Edwards, who battled societal and establishment resistance to his development of the in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure, which has so far led to the birth of around 4 million people.

2009 Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

2008 Harald zur Hausen for human papilloma viruses as causative agent in cervical cancer and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus

2007 Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Martin J. Evans - for gene targeting in mice

2006 Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello - for RNA interference, gene silencing by double-stranded RNA

2005 Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren - Helicobacter pylori and its role in ulcers and gastritis

2004 Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck - sense of smell

2003 Paul C. Lauterbur, Sir Peter Mansfield - magnetic resonance imaging

2002 Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston - organ development and programmed cell death

2001 Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul Nurse - cell cycle regulators

2000 Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel - signal transduction in the nervous system

1999 Günter Blobel - protein signals

1998 Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad - nitric oxide as a neurotransmitter

1997 Stanley B. Prusiner - prions

1996 Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel - cell mediated immune defence

1995 Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus - genetic control of embryonic development

1994 Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell - G proteins and signal transduction

1993 Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp - split genes

1992 Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs - reversible protein phosphorylation

1991 Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann - single ion channels in cells

1990 Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas - organ and cell transplantation

1989 J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus

1988 Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings

1987 Susumu Tonegawa

1986 Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini

1985 Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein

1984 Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein

1983 Barbara McClintock

1982 Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane

1981 Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel

1980 Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell

1979 Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield

1978 Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith

1977 Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow

1976 Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek

1975 David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard M. Temin

1974 Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade

1973 Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen

1972 Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter

1971 Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.

1970 Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod

1969 Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria

1968 Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg

1967 Ragnar Granit, Haldan K. Hartline, George Wald

1966 Peyton Rous, Charles B. Huggins

1965 François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod

1964 Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen

1963 Sir John Eccles, Alan L. Hodgkin, Andrew F. Huxley

1962 Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins

1961 Georg von Békésy

1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Medawar

1959 Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg

1958 George Beadle, Edward Tatum, Joshua Lederberg

1957 Daniel Bovet

1956 André F. Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards

1955 Hugo Theorell

1954 John F. Enders, Thomas H. Weller, Frederick C. Robbins

1953 Hans Krebs, Fritz Lipmann

1952 Selman A. Waksman

1951 Max Theiler

1950 Edward C. Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip S. Hench

1949 Walter Hess, Egas Moniz

1948 Paul Müller

1947 Carl Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay

1946 Hermann J. Muller

1945 Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, Sir Howard Florey

1944 Joseph Erlanger, Herbert S. Gasser

1943 Henrik Dam, Edward A. Doisy

1939 Gerhard Domagk

1938 Corneille Heymans

1937 Albert Szent-Györgyi

1936 Sir Henry Dale, Otto Loewi

1935 Hans Spemann

1934 George H. Whipple, George R. Minot, William P. Murphy

1933 Thomas H. Morgan

1932 Sir Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian

1931 Otto Warburg

1930 Karl Landsteiner

1929 Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Hopkins

1928 Charles Nicolle

1927 Julius Wagner-Jauregg

1926 Johannes Fibiger

1924 Willem Einthoven

1923 Frederick G. Banting, John Macleod

1922 Archibald V. Hill, Otto Meyerhof

1920 August Krogh

1919 Jules Bordet

1914 Robert Bárány

1913 Charles Richet

1912 Alexis Carrel

1911 Allvar Gullstrand

1910 Albrecht Kossel

1909 Theodor Kocher

1908 Ilya Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich

1907 Alphonse Laveran

1906 Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal

1905 Robert Koch -

1904 Ivan Pavlov - digestion

1903 Niels Ryberg Finsen - lupus

1902 Ronald Ross - malaria

1901 Emil von Behring - serum therapy against diptheria and other diseases

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