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Gerald Edelman
1929 – 2014
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryGerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. There is a continuity in this way between his work on the immune system, for which he won the Nobel Prize, and his later work in neuroscience and in philosophy of mind.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
July 1, 1929
Queens
Date of death
May 17, 2014
La Jolla
Citizenship
United States
Occupations & fields
immunologistneuroscientistuniversity teacherneurologistphysicistchemist
Awards & honours
Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAriëns Kappers MedalEli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistryhonorary doctorate of the University of La Coruñahonorary doctor of the University of Miamihonorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII
- Field and occupation
- biológ z Spojené štáty americké
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