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Werner Arber's Nobel Prize is in which category?

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Physiology or Medicine. Werner Arber was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978 for his discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics. Restriction enzymes are proteins that cut DNA at specific palindromic sequences, and they have become essential tools in molecular biology and genetic engineering.
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