Five of the winners bring new honor to the U.S.
America's clean sweep of the Nobel prizes in 1976 was a hard act to follow. Last week, when seven 1977 prizewinners in the sciences were announced in Stockholm, five were again Americans. The awards, each worth $145,000:
Medicine. Through its myriad glands—and the hormones they secrete into the bloodstream—the endocrine system acts as a kind of bodily Mission Control, regulating a variety of functions, from growth to sexual activity. The three winners of the prize in physiology or medicine helped unravel the mysteries of...
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