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Nobel Laureates at HMS

George Minot ’12
Research on liver treatments for pernicious and other anemias, with William P. Murphy.
Physiology or Medicine, 1934

William P. Murphy ’22
Research on liver treatments for pernicious and other anemias, with George Minot.
Physiology or Medicine, 1934

Fritz A. Lipmann
Identification of coenzyme A and discovery of the basic principles of energy generation by cells.
Physiology or Medicine, 1953

John F. Enders
Application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases such as polio, with Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas H. Weller.
Physiology or Medicine, 1954

Frederick C. Robbins* ’40
Application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases such as polio, with John F. Enders and Thomas H. Weller.
Physiology or Medicine, 1954

Thomas H. Weller ’40
Application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases such as polio, with John F. Enders and Frederick C. Robbins.
Physiology or Medicine, 1954

Baruj Benacerraf
Discovery of genetically determined structures on the surfaces of immune system cells that regulate immunological reactions.
Physiology or Medicine, 1980

David Hubel
Research on information processing in the visual system, with Torsten Wiesel.
Medicine, 1981

Torsten Wiesel
Research on information processing in the visual system, with David Hubel.
Physiology or Medicine, 1981

Bernard Lown, Herbert Abrams, Eric Chivian ’68, and James Muller
Cofounders of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, with Evgueni Chazov, Leonid Ilyin, and Mikhail Kuzin of the Soviet Union.
Peace, 1985

Joseph E. Murray ’43B
Development of procedures for organ and cell transplantation in humans, with E. Donnall Thomas ’46.
Medicine, 1990

Linda Buck*
Discovery of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system leading to an explanation of the sense of smell, with Richard Axel.
Medicine, 2004

*for work done while a member of Harvard faculty

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