Gerald Edelman

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. They won the award for their work on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules.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.

Edelman died from Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer in La Jolla, California, aged 84.

References

Other websites
 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

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