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Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1966
Peyton Rous received the 1966 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses. The Nobel committee highlighted this contribution for its lasting importance to the field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.