Nobel Prizes that changed medicine

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Ch. 1. The discovery of insulin / Robert Tattersall -- ch. 2. The discovery of the cure for pernicious anaemia, vitamin B12 / A. Victor Hoffbrand -- ch. 3. The discovery of penicillin / Eric Sidebottom -- ch. 4. The introduction of cardiac catheterisation / Tony Seed -- ch. 5. The discovery of the structure of DNA / James Scott and Gilbert Thompson -- ch. 6. The interpretation of the genetic code / John MacDermot and Ellis Kempner -- ch. 7. The discovery of neuropeptides and radioimmunoassay of peptide hormones / Jaimini Cegla and Stephen Bloom -- ch. 8. The development of computer-assisted tomography / Adrian M.K. Thomas -- ch. 9. The discovery of prostaglandins / Rod Flower -- ch. 10. The antibody problem and the generation of monoclonal antibodies / Herman Waldmann and Celia P. Milstein -- ch. 11. The discovery of the LDL receptor and its role in cholesterol metabolism / Gilbert Thompson -- ch. 12. The invention of the polymerase chain reaction and use of site-directed mutagenesis / Anne K. Soutar -- ch. 13. The discovery of the pathophysiological role of nitric oxide in blood vessels / Keith M. Channon -- ch. 14. The discovery of helicobacter pylori / Chris Hawkey -- ch. 15. The discovery of RNA interference - Gene silencing by double-stranded RNA / Richard P. Hull and Timothy J. Aitman