Robert Lefkowitz (69) and Brain Kobilka (57), the two Americans won the Nobel Prize 2012 for Chemistry on 10 October, 2012. They won the award for their study and research on Protein Receptors, which allows the body to respond the signals from outside world. The study in a key and would pave the path for developing better drugs to different ailments. Lefkowitz and Kobilka from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina and Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto. California respectively will be sharing the prize amount of 8 million-krona ($1.2 million).
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