2 Americans Win Nobel Prize for Explaining How Brain Learns What Nose Knows

Two American scientists have won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on how the sense of smell works, Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced this morning.

Richard Axel, 58, a university professor at Columbia University, and Linda B. Buck, 57, a full member of the Division of Basic Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle, will share equally the $1.4-million prize, which will be awarded

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