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Learn more about the people who have won a Nobel Prize for their science
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A 2021 Nobel goes for discovering how our body reads touch sensations
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Tina Hesman Saey
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Freda Kreier
October 5, 2021
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Maria Temming
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Jonathan Lambert
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