The Nobel Prize inThe Nobel Prize in
Physiology orPhysiology or
MedicineMedicine
2010
Robert G. Edwards
Born: 27 September 1925, Batley, United
Kingdom
Died: 10 April 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Prize motivation: "for the development of in vitro
fertilization"
Field: reproductive medicine
Prize share: 1/1
2011
Bruce A. Beutler
Born: 1957, Chicago, IL, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at
Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA, The Scripps
Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries
concerning the activation of innate immunity"
Field: immunity
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Prize share: 1/4
Jules A. Hoffmann
• Born: 1941, Echternach, Luxembourg
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• Affiliation at the time of the award: University
of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
• Prize motivation: "for their discoveries
concerning the activation of innate immunity"
• Field: immunity
• Prize share: 1/4
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Ralph M. Steinman
• Born: 1943, Montreal, Canada
• Died: 30 September 2011
• Affiliation at the time of the award:
Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
• Prize motivation: "for his discovery of the
dendritic cell and its role in adaptive
immunity"
• Field: immunity
• Prize share: 1/2
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2012
Sir John B. Gurdon
• Born: 2 October 1933, Dippenhall, United
Kingdom
• Affiliation at the time of the award: Gurdon
Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Prize motivation: "for the discovery that
mature cells can be reprogrammed to
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become pluripotent"
• Field: genetics
• Prize share: 1/2
Shinya Yamanaka
• Born: 4 September 1962, Osaka, Japan
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• Affiliation at the time of the award: Kyoto
University, Kyoto, Japan, Gladstone
Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Prize motivation: "for the discovery that
mature cells can be reprogrammed to
become pluripotent"
• Field: genetics
• Prize share: 1/2
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2013
James E. Rothman
• Born: 3 November 1950, Haverhill, MA, USA
• Affiliation at the time of the award: Yale
University, New Haven, CT, USA
• Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of
machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major
transport system in our cells"
• Field: biochemistry, cell physiology
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• Prize share: 1/3
Randy W. Schekman
• Born: 30 December 1948, St. Paul, MN,
USA
• Affiliation at the time of the award: University
of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute
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• Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of
machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major
transport system in our cells"
• Field: cell physiology, genetics
• Prize share: 1/3
Thomas C. Südhof
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• Born: 22 December 1955, Göttingen,
Germany
• Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, USA, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute
• Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of
machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major
transport system in our cells"
• Field: cell physiology, neurophysiology
• Prize share: 1/3
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2014
John O'Keefe
• Born: 1939, New York, NY, USA
• Affiliation at the time of the award: University
College, London, United Kingdom
• Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of
cells that constitute a positioning system in
the brain"
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• Field: physiology, spatial behavior
• Prize share: 1/2
May-Britt Moser
• Born: 1963, Fosnavåg, Norway
• Affiliation at the time of the award: Centre for
Neural Computation, Trondheim, Norway
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• Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of
cells that constitute a positioning system in
the brain"
• Field: physiology, spatial behavior
• Prize share: 1/4
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Edvard Moser• Born: 1962, Ålesund, Norway
• Affiliation at the time of the award: Kavli
Institute for Systems Neuroscience,
Trondheim, Norway
• Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of
cells that constitute a positioning system in
the brain"
• Field: physiology, spatial behavior
• Prize share: 1/4
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