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Events on Friday 1 October 1993 1
1993Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAwarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Richard J. Roberts, for their independent discoveries of split genes. The Nobel committee cited the discovery as having been of fundamental importance for basic research in biology and for medical research on cancer and other diseases.