Nobel Lectures In Physiology Or Medicine 1996-2000 (Paperback)

The following is a list of the Nobel laureates during 1996 -- 2000 with a description of the works that won them their prizes:

(1996) P C Doherty & R M Zinkernagel -- for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence; (1997) S B Prusiner -- for his discovery of 'prisons -- a new biological principle of infection'; (1998) R F Furchgott, L J Ignarro & F Murad -- for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system; (1999) G Blobel -- for the discovery that 'proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell'; (2000) A Carlsson, P Greengard & E R Kandel -- for their discoveries concerning 'signal transduction in the nervous system'.