1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Germany) "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
1904 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russia) "in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged"
1906 Camillo Golgi (Italy) and Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spain) "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"
1909 Emil Theodor Kocher (Switzerland) "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland"
1914 Robert Bárány (Vienna) "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"
1920 Chemistry: Walther Hermann Nernst (Germany) "in recognition of his work in thermochemistry"
1932 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (Great Britain) and Edgar Douglas Adrian (Great Britain) "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons"
1935 Hans Spemann (Germany) "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"
1936 Sir Henry Hallett Dale (Great Britain) and Otto Loewi (Great Britain) "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses"
1944 Joseph Erlanger (USA) Herbert Spencer Gasser (USA) "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
1949 Walter Rudolf Hess "for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs"
1949 Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses"
1952 Physics: Felix Bloch (USA) and Edward Mills Purcell (USA) "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"
1961 Georg von Békésy (USA/Hungary)"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
1962 Francis Harry Compton Crick (Great Britain), James Dewey Watson (USA) and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (Great Britain) "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
1963 Sir John Carew Eccles (Australia), Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley (Great Britain) "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
1967 Ragnar Granit (Sweden/Finland), Haldan Keffer Hartline (USA) and George Wald (USA) "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"
1968 Robert W. Holley (USA), Har Gobind Khorana (USA) and Marshall W. Nirenberg (USA) "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"
1970 Sir Bernard Katz (Great Britain), Ulf von Euler (Sweden) and Julius Axelrod (USA) "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation"
1972 Physics: John Bardeen (USA), Leon Neil Cooper (USA) and John Robert Schrieffer (USA)"for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory" [Professor Cooper was Director of Brown University's Center for Neural Science.]
1973 Karl von Frisch (Germany), Konrad Lorenz (Austria) and Nikolaas Tinbergen (Great Britain) "for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns"
1973 Physics: Brian David Josephson (Great Britain) "for his theoretical predictions of theproperties of a supercurrent through a barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects"
1976 Baruch S. Blumberg (USA) and D. Carleton Gajdusek (USA) "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
1977 Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally for their discoveries concerning "the peptide hormone production of the brain"
1977 Rosalyn Yalow for "the development of radioimmunoassays of peptid hormones"
1979 Allan M Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield for the "development of computer assisted tomography"
1981 Roger W. Sperry, for his discoveries concerning "the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres"
1981 David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel, for their discoveries concerning "visual system".
1986 Stanley Cohen (USA) Rita Levi-Montalcini (Italy/USA)"for their discoveries of growth factors"
1991 Erwin Neher (Germany) Bert Sakmann (Germany) "for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
1991 Chemistry: Richard R. Ernst (Switzerland) "for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"
1994 Alfred G. Gilman (USA) Martin Rodbell (USA) "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells"
1997 Stanley B. Prusiner, in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of "prions - a new biological principle of infection"
1997 Chemistry: Paul D. Boyer (USA) and John E. Walker (Great Britain) "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"
1997 Jens C. Skou (Denmark) "for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+-ATPase"
1998 Robert F. Furchgott (USA)Louis J. Ignarro (USA) and Ferid Murad (USA) "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system"
2000 Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel for their discoveries concerning "signal transduction in the nervous system"
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