page_title: List of Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine
section_title: 1980–1989
hierarchical_section_title: List of Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine / Nobel Prize winners / 1980–1989
caption_attribution_description: Mary Lasker with Dr. Michael DeBakey, Congressman John Brademas, and Dr. K. Sune D. Bergstrom
context_page_description: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is one of the Nobel Prizes which were created by Alfred Nobel. This award is decided by the Karolinska Institutet, a major medical center in Sweden. The Prize is given every year to a person or persons who have done excellent work in the area of medicine or physiology.
context_section_description: 1980 – Baruj Benacerraf, United States, Jean Dausset, France, and George D. Snell, United States, for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that control immunological reactions
  1981 – Roger Sperry, United States, for finding out the role of the cerebral hemispheres of the brain
  1981 – David Hubel, United States, and Torsten Wiesel, Sweden, for their discoveries about information processing in the visual system"
  1982 – Sune Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Sweden, and John R. Vane, United Kingdom, for their discoveries about prostaglandins.
  1983 – Barbara McClintock, United States, for her discovery of mobile genetic elements
  1984 – Niels K. Jerne, Denmark, Georges Köhler, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, César Milstein, Argentina and the United Kingdom, for theories about the development and control of the immune system and the discovery of monoclonal antibodies are made
  1985 – Michael S. Brown, and Joseph L. Goldstein, United States, for finding out how cholesterol is controlled
  1986 – Stanley Cohen, United States, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italy and the United States, for their discoveries of growth factors
  1987 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japan, for his discovery how the genes make different antibodies
  1988 – Sir James Black United Kingdom, Gertrude B. Elion, and George H. Hitchings, United States, for finding important rules for drug treatment
  1989 – J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, United States, found how disturbing a large family of genes that control the normal growth and division of cells, can cause normal cells to change into cancer cells.
caption: Sune Bergström, 1982
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