Diabetes : Modern Times.
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*Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi General Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 40138 I 1964 Dorothy Crowfort Hodgkin (19101944) (Figure 1) won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin molecular structure by X-ray crystallography. In 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born in 1921) (Figure 2) was awarded with Nobel Prize for the development of radioimmunoassay of polypeptides (among them, insulin). Diabetes : Modern Times
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
دوره 63 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010