Gerald Maurice Edelman ( July 1 , 1929 -- May 17 , 2014 ) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system .
< indicator name = `` top-icon '' > </indicator> Gerald Maurice Edelman ( July 1 , 1929 -- May 17 , 2014 ) was an American biologist . He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rodney Robert Porter .