Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 1960s
The top 3 according to 1 vote: Francis Crick · Frank Macfarlane Burnet · Peter Brian Medawar. (Updated Apr 29, 2023.)
Every Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate between 1960 and 1969, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?
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Top 25
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Francis Crick
1962. For their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.
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Frank Macfarlane Burnet
1960. For discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.
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Peter Brian Medawar
1960. For discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.
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Georg von Békésy
1961. For his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea.
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James Dewey Watson
1962. For their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
1962. For their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.
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John Carew Eccles
1963. For their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
1963. For their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
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Andrew Fielding Huxley
1963. For their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
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Konrad Bloch
1964. For their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
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Feodor Lynen
1964. For their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
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François Jacob
1965. For their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
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André Lwoff
1965. For their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
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Jacques Monod
1965. For their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
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Peyton Rous
1966. For his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses.
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Charles Brenton Huggins
1966. For his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer.
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Ragnar Granit
1967. For their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.
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Haldan Keffer Hartline
1967. For their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.
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George Wald
1967. For their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye.
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Robert W. Holley
1968. For their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
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Har Gobind Khorana
1968. For their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
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Marshall W. Nirenberg
1968. For their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
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Max Delbrück
1969. For their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.
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Alfred Hershey
1969. For their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.
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Salvador E. Luria
1969. For their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.
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Comments (12)
Monod, Jacob y Lwoff, el operón lac.
Delbrück, Hershey y Luria, los fagos.
Década clave para la biología molecular.
Burnet y Medawar, la tolerancia inmunológica.
Watson, Crick y Wilkins... y Rosalind Franklin ya había muerto.
Imprescindible para estudiantes de Medicina.
Huggins y el cáncer de próstata.
Hodgkin y Huxley, el potencial de acción, lo estudié en Fisiología.
Eccles, Hodgkin y Huxley en 1963, neurociencia pura.
Békésy y el oído.
Nirenberg descifrando el código genético.
Peyton Rous esperó 55 años desde su descubrimiento.