Gerald Edelman

Gerald Edelman

Gerald Maurice Edelman (; July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine f...

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Profile & Early Foundations

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.

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Major Works & Significant Milestones

Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules.

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Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules.

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SUCCESS & ENDURING LEGACY

Honours, Standing & Enduring Legacy

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.

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