Gerald Edelman
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Gerald Edelman was an American biologist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering how the immune system produces the vast diversity of antibodies needed to fight different diseases. His work fundamentally changed our understanding of how our bodies defend themselves against infection and has had lasting importance for immunology and medical research.
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Gerald Maurice Edelman (/ˈɛdəlmən/; 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. 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.
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