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	Leland H. Hartwell, R. Timorth Hunt, and Sir Paul M. Nurse share a Nobel Prize in Medicine for for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.	2001	George W. Bush becomes forty-third president of the United States.
	Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston share a Nobel Prize in Medicine for for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.	2002
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