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Gerald Edelman
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American biologist (1929–2014)
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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- Works
- 3
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- Cure for Nutritional Neurosis
- Sugar Rehab
- Wider than the Sky
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-06-10
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- 1
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- 1
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5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,917x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
- Improved Survival with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma
· 2010 · cited 12,987x
- An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
· 2012 · cited 11,732x
- Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization
· 2016 · cited 8,884x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1972
“for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies”
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gerald
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Queens
- Place of death
- La Jolla
- Occupation
- chemist
- Educated at
- The Rockefeller University
- Employer
- The Rockefeller University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Frederick Sanger
- Field of work
- immunology
- Image
- Professor Gerald M. Edelman.jpg
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- Gerald Edelman
- name in native language
- Gerald Maurice Edelman
- date of death
- 2014-05-17
- date of birth
- 1929-07-01
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- biochemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and education
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