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The Nobel Prize in

Physiology or Medicine 1958

Prize Amount: 214,559 SEK

Laureates

George Beadle

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"for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"

Edward Tatum

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"for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"

Joshua Lederberg

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"for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"