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The 160 pages that link to Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, each with the reason it gives.
AutophagyRelated: The 2016 prize recognized Ohsumi’s discoveries of autophagy mechanisms.
DDTRelated: The 1948 prize recognized Müller’s discovery of DDT’s insecticidal properties.
Alexander FlemingRelated: Fleming shared the 1945 prize with Florey and Chain for penicillin’s discovery and therapeutic development.
ArtemisininRelated: Tu Youyou shared the 2015 prize for discoveries concerning artemisinin-based malaria therapy.
James WatsonRelated: Watson shared its 1962 award with Crick and Wilkins for discoveries concerning DNA’s molecular structure.
Paul EhrlichRelated: Ehrlich shared the 1908 prize with Élie Metchnikoff for work on immunity.
Thomas Hunt MorganRelated: Morgan received the 1933 prize for discoveries concerning the role of chromosomes in heredity.
IvermectinRelated: The 2015 prize recognized Ōmura and Campbell for discoveries leading to ivermectin-based therapies.
Helicobacter pyloriRelated: Marshall and Warren received the 2005 prize for discovering H. pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
Kyoto UniversityRelated: Kyoto-affiliated research has contributed to Nobel-recognized advances in stem cells and immunology.
Santiago Ramón y CajalRelated: Cajal shared the 1906 prize with Golgi for their work on the structure of the nervous system.
Hodgkin–Huxley modelRelated: Hodgkin and Huxley received the 1963 prize for their discoveries concerning nerve impulses.
PropranololRelated: The 1988 prize recognized James Black’s work on beta blockers and other receptor-targeted drugs.
TRPV1Related: The 2021 award recognized work on receptors for temperature and touch, including research on TRPV1.
Ivan PavlovRelated: Pavlov received the 1904 prize for his work on the physiology of digestion.
Camillo GolgiRelated: Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal received the 1906 prize for work on nervous-system structure.
Frederick Gowland HopkinsRelated: Hopkins received the 1929 prize for his discovery of growth-stimulating vitamins.
ImprintingRelated: Lorenz shared the 1973 prize for discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior.
Reverse transcriptionRelated: Temin and Baltimore shared the 1975 prize for discoveries concerning tumor viruses and their genetic material.
Andrew HuxleyRelated: The 1963 award recognized Huxley, Hodgkin, and Katz for discoveries concerning nerve impulses.
Barbara McClintockRelated: McClintock received the 1983 prize for discovering mobile genetic elements.
Élie MetchnikoffRelated: Metchnikoff shared the 1908 prize with Paul Ehrlich for work on immunity.
KuruRelated: Gajdusek received the 1976 prize for discoveries concerning new mechanisms of infection.
Maurice WilkinsRelated: Wilkins shared the 1962 prize with Watson and Crick for discoveries concerning DNA’s molecular structure.
Emil von BehringRelated: Behring was its inaugural laureate in 1901 for serum therapy, especially against diphtheria.
Pasteur InstituteRelated: Scientists affiliated with the institute have received the prize for work in immunology and infectious disease.
Ronald RossRelated: Ross received the 1902 prize for his work on malaria.
Arthur KornbergRelated: Kornberg shared the 1959 prize for discovering the mechanisms of biological DNA synthesis.
Christiaan EijkmanRelated: Eijkman shared the 1929 prize for discoveries concerning vitamins.
Karl LandsteinerRelated: Landsteiner received the 1930 prize for discovering human blood groups.
Karl von FrischRelated: Frisch shared the 1973 prize with Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen for discoveries about animal behavior.
Max DelbrückRelated: Delbrück shared the 1969 prize with Luria and Hershey for discoveries about virus replication and genetic structure.
Alan HodgkinRelated: The 1963 prize recognized Hodgkin, Huxley, and Eccles for discoveries concerning nerve-cell membranes.
Alexis CarrelRelated: Carrel received the 1912 prize for work on vascular suturing and blood-vessel transplantation.
Eric KandelRelated: Kandel shared the 2000 prize for discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system.
Hans SpemannRelated: Spemann received the 1935 award for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development.
James BlackRelated: Black received the 1988 prize with Gertrude Elion and John Vane.
John EcclesRelated: The 1963 award recognized Eccles’s discoveries about synaptic transmission.
Rita Levi-MontalciniRelated: Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen received it in 1986 for discoveries of growth factors.
Selman WaksmanRelated: Waksman received the 1952 prize for discovering streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
Shinya YamanakaRelated: Yamanaka shared the 2012 award with John B. Gurdon for discoveries about cellular reprogramming.
Carol W. GreiderRelated: Greider, Blackburn, and Szostak received the 2009 award for discoveries about telomeres.
César MilsteinRelated: Milstein, Köhler, and Jerne received the 1984 prize for theories and discoveries concerning immune specificity.
Françoise Barré-SinoussiRelated: The 2008 award recognized her contribution to the discovery of HIV.
George Emil PaladeRelated: Palade shared the 1974 award with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve.
Gerty CoriRelated: Gerty Cori became the first woman to receive this prize.
Julius AxelrodRelated: Axelrod received the 1970 prize with Ulf von Euler and Bernardo Houssay.
Karolinska InstituteRelated: The institute’s Nobel Assembly selects the prize’s laureates.
Katalin KarikóRelated: Karikó and Weissman received the 2023 prize for discoveries enabling effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Godfrey HounsfieldRelated: Hounsfield and Cormack shared the 1979 award for developing computer-assisted tomography.