Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895.
Laureates & Recipients
58 in registryCharles Rice
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"For the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, which led to the development of effective antiviral treatments that have saved millions of lives."
James Allison
Top 0.01% — TitanImmunology
James Allison is a immunology specialist with an H-index of 157 at MD Anderson Cancer Center (Member). Has been publishe...
Tasuku Honjo
Top 0.01% — TitanPD-1 Immunotherapy
Tasuku Honjo is a pd-1 immunotherapy specialist with an H-index of 175 at Kyoto University (Faculty). Has been published...
Alfred Gilman
Top 0.01% — TitanPharmacology
Alfred Gilman is a pharmacology specialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Based in United States....
Allan Cormack
Top 0.01% — TitanMedical Physics
Allan Cormack is a medical physics specialist at Tufts University. Based in Boston....
Barbara McClintock
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Barbara McClintock is a genetics specialist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Based in Cold Spring Harbor....
Baruj Benacerraf
Top 1% — EliteImmunology
Baruj Benacerraf was an immunology specialist with an H-index of 70 at Harvard Medical School. Nobel Prize 1980 for disc...
Bert Sakmann
Top 0.01% — TitanNeuroscience
Bert Sakmann is a neuroscience specialist at Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. Based in Germany....
Charles Brenton Huggins
Top 0.01% — TitanUrology
Charles Brenton Huggins is a urology specialist at University of Chicago. Based in Chicago....
Christiaan Eijkman
Top 1% — EliteMedicine
Christiaan Eijkman is a medicine specialist at University of Utrecht. Based in Utrecht....
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Top 0.01% — TitanDevelopmental Biology
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard is a developmental biology specialist at Max Planck Institute for Biology. Based in Germany....
Edward Lewis
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Edward Lewis is a genetics specialist at California Institute of Technology. Based in Pasadena....
Eric Kandel
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Eric Kandel is a neuroscience specialist with an H-index of 180 at Columbia University. Nobel Prize 2000 for discoveries...
Erwin Neher
Top 0.01% — TitanBiophysics
Erwin Neher is a biophysics specialist at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Based in Germany....
Ferid Murad
Top 0.01% — TitanPharmacology
Ferid Murad was a pharmacology specialist with an H-index of 110. Nobel Prize 1998 for discovering nitric oxide signalin...
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
Top 1% — EliteVirology
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi is a virology specialist at Pasteur Institute. Based in Paris....
Gertrude Elion
Top 0.01% — TitanPharmacology
Gertrude Elion was a pharmacology specialist who developed groundbreaking drugs for leukemia, organ transplant rejection...
Gerty Cori
Top 0.01% — TitanBiochemistry
Gerty Cori is a biochemistry specialist at Washington University in St. Louis. Based in St. Louis....
Godfrey Hounsfield
Top 0.01% — TitanRadiology
Godfrey Hounsfield is a radiology specialist at EMI Central Research Laboratories. Based in London....
Gregg Semenza
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Gregg Semenza is a genetics specialist at Johns Hopkins University. Based in Baltimore....
Gunter Blobel
Top 0.01% — TitanCell Biology
Gunter Blobel is a cell biology specialist at Rockefeller University. Based in New York....
H. Robert Horvitz
Top 0.01% — TitanBiology
H. Robert Horvitz is a biology specialist at MIT. Based in Cambridge....
Har Gobind Khorana
Top 0.01% — TitanMolecular Biology
Har Gobind Khorana was a molecular biology specialist at MIT who decoded the genetic code. Nobel Prize 1968 for interpre...
Howard Florey
Top 0.01% — TitanPathology
Howard Florey is a pathology specialist at University of Oxford. Based in Oxford....
J. Michael Bishop
Top 0.01% — TitanOncology
J. Michael Bishop is a oncology specialist at University of California, San Francisco. Based in United States....
Jack Szostak
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Jack Szostak is a genetics specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Based in United States....
James Rothman
Top 0.01% — TitanCell Biology
James Rothman is a cell biology specialist at Yale University. Based in United States....
Jeffrey Hall
Top 1% — EliteGenetics
Jeffrey Hall is a genetics specialist at University of Maine. Based in Orono....
John O'Keefe
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John O'Keefe is a neuroscience specialist at University College London. Based in United States....
John Sulston
Top 0.01% — TitanBiology
John Sulston is a biology specialist at Wellcome Sanger Institute. Based in Cambridge....
Joseph Murray
Top 0.01% — TitanTransplant Surgery
Joseph Murray was a transplant surgery and plastic surgery specialist with an H-index of 55 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospit...
Jules Hoffmann
Top 1% — EliteImmunology
Jules Hoffmann is a immunology specialist at University of Strasbourg. Based in Strasbourg....
Leland Hartwell
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Leland Hartwell is a genetics specialist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Based in Seattle....
Linda Buck
Top 0.01% — TitanNeuroscience
Linda Buck is a neuroscience specialist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Based in United States....
Michael Houghton
Top 0.01% — TitanVirology
Michael Houghton is a virology specialist with an H-index of 105 at the University of Alberta. Nobel Prize 2020 for disc...
Michael Rosbash
Top 1% — EliteGenetics
Michael Rosbash is a genetics specialist at Brandeis University. Based in Waltham....
Michael Young
Top 1% — EliteGenetics
Michael Young is a genetics specialist at Rockefeller University. Based in New York....
Oliver Smithies
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Oliver Smithies is a genetics specialist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Based in Chapel Hill....
Paul Ehrlich
Top 0.01% — TitanImmunology
Paul Ehrlich was an immunology and pharmacology specialist at the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt. Nobel...
Paul Greengard
Top 0.01% — TitanNeuroscience
Paul Greengard is a neuroscience specialist at Rockefeller University. Based in United States....
Paul Lauterbur
Top 0.01% — TitanRadiology
Paul Lauterbur is a radiology specialist at University of Illinois. Based in Urbana....
Peter Mansfield
Top 0.01% — TitanMedical Physics
Peter Mansfield is a medical physics specialist at University of Nottingham. Based in Nottingham....
Randy Schekman
Top 0.01% — TitanCell Biology
Randy Schekman is a cell biology specialist at University of California, Berkeley. Based in United States....
Richard Axel
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Richard Axel is a neuroscience specialist at Columbia University. Based in United States....
Robert Furchgott
Top 0.01% — TitanPharmacology
Robert Furchgott is a pharmacology specialist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Based in New York....
Robert Koch
Top 0.01% — TitanMicrobiology
Robert Koch was a microbiology specialist who discovered the tuberculosis and cholera bacilli. Nobel Prize 1905. Establi...
Robin Warren
Top 1% — ElitePathology
Robin Warren is a pathology specialist at Royal Perth Hospital. Based in Perth....
Ronald Ross
Top 0.01% — TitanTropical Medicine
Ronald Ross is a tropical medicine specialist at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Based in London....
Rosalyn Yalow
Top 0.01% — TitanMedical Physics
Rosalyn Yalow is a medical physics specialist at Bronx VA Medical Center. Based in New York....
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Top 0.01% — TitanNeuroscience
Santiago Ramon y Cajal was the father of modern neuroscience who established the neuron doctrine. Nobel Prize 1906 for w...
Susumu Tonegawa
Top 0.01% — TitanImmunology
Susumu Tonegawa is an immunology and neuroscience specialist with an H-index of 130 at MIT. Nobel Prize 1987 for discove...
Svante Paabo
Top 0.01% — TitanGenetics
Svante Paabo is a genetics specialist at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Based in Leipzig....
Thomas Sudhof
Top 0.01% — TitanNeuroscience
Thomas Sudhof is a neuroscience specialist at Stanford University. Based in Germany....
Tim Hunt
Top 1% — EliteBiochemistry
Tim Hunt is a biochemistry specialist at Francis Crick Institute. Based in London....
Werner Forssmann
Top 0.01% — TitanCardiology
Werner Forssmann is a cardiology specialist at Auguste-Viktoria-Krankenhaus. Based in Bad Kreuznach....
William Kaelin
Top 0.01% — TitanOncology
William Kaelin is a oncology specialist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Based in Boston....
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Top 0.01% — TitanCell Biology
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a cell biology specialist at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Based in Japan....
Youyou Tu
Top 1% — ElitePharmacology
Youyou Tu is a pharmacology specialist at China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Based in Beijing....
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