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Susumu Tonegawa
Full Name of the recipient | Susumu Tonegawa |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1987 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
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Motivation for the Award | for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA |
Place of Birth | Nagoya, Japan JPN |
Date of Birth | 6 September 1939 |
Age at the time of Award | 47 years |