Gerald Edelman

Gerald Maurice Edelman (; 1 Julai 1929 - 17 Mei 2014) ialah ahli biologi Amerika Syarikat yang berkongsi Hadiah Nobel dalam Fisiologi atau Perubatan 1972 untuk bekerja dengan Rodney Robert Porter pada sistem imun. Penyelidikan Pemenang Hadiah Nobel Edelman berkenaan penemuan struktur molekul antibodi.Structural differences among antibodies of different specificities  by G. M. Edelman, B. Benacerraf, Z. Ovary and M. D. Poulik in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1961) volume 47, pages 1751-1758. Dalam temu bual, beliau berkata bahawa cara komponen sistem imun berkembang sepanjang hayat individu adalah sama dengan cara komponen otak berkembang dalam seumur hidup. Terdapat kesinambungan dengan cara ini di antara kerjanya pada sistem kekebalan tubuh, yang mana beliau memenangi Hadiah Nobel, dan kemudiannya bekerja dalam bidang neurosains dan falsafah fikiran. 

 Bibliografi 
 Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (Basic Books, New York 1987). 
 Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology (Basic Books, 1988, Reissue edition 1993) 
 The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness (Basic Books, New York 1990). 
 Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind (Basic Books, 1992, Reprint edition 1993). 
 The Brain, Edelman and Jean-Pierre Changeux, editors, (Transaction Publishers, 2000). 
 A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination, Edelman and Giulio Tononi, coauthors, (Basic Books, 2000, Reprint edition 2001). 
 Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness (Yale Univ. Press 2004) 
 Second Nature:  Brain Science and Human Knowledge (Yale University Press 2006) 

 Rujukan 

 Bacaan lanjut 
  (originally published in Artificial Intelligence 39 (1989) 121-139.)

 Pautan luar 
 Gerald Edelman telling his life story at Web Of Stories
 The Scripps Research Institute - Faculty: Gerald Edelman
 Nobel Prize biography
 "Evolution in Your Brain: Gerald Edelman says only the fittest neurons survive" Interview in Discover Magazine, July 2007
 "The Brain Doctor: Dr. Gerald Edelman is a Genius on a Spiritual Path"- Profile in San Diego Jewish Journal, October 2007
 "From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness", Video, IBM Lecture on Cognitive Computing, June 2006, inactive as of
 Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation June 15, 2013.
 Edelman Gerald Nobel Luminaries - Jewish Nobel Prize Winners, on the Beit Hatfutsot-The Museum of the Jewish People Website.

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