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Tonegawa, Susumu

Tonegawa, Susumu (1939-...), is a Japanese biologist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research on the genetics of the immune system. He was the first Japanese scientist to win the physiology or medicine prize.

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