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Did Linda B. Buck win the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physics?

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Linda B. Buck won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004. She won the prize with Richard Axel for their discovery of the odorant receptor system. The odorant receptor system is a complex network of proteins that detects odorant molecules in the environment and transmits signals to the brain.
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