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Gerald Edelman
Gerald Maurice Edelman 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 wa…
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science · American biologist · immunologist · neuroscientist · university teacher · neurologist · physicist · chemist · physician · also Gerald Edelman, Gerald M. Edelman, Gerald Maurice Edelman, Edelman
Born 1 July 1929 · Died 17 May 2014 · Q271766
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2014· 1 entry
Died 2014-05-17.
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2007· 2 entries
“... what you lose on entering a dreamless deep sleep ... deep anesthesia or coma ... what you regain after emerging from these states. [The] experience of a unitary scene composed variably of sensory responses ... memories ... situatedness ...”
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“Interview in Discover Magazine, July 2007”
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of La Coruña (2003).
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1999· 1 entry
Won Ariëns Kappers Medal (1999).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1995).
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1992· 1 entry
Moved to California and became a professor of neurobiology at The Scripps Research Institute
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Topobiology is the process that sculpts and maintains differentiated tissues and is acquired by the energetically favored segregation of cells through heterologous cellular interactions
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1972· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1972).
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The Karolinska Institutet lauded Edelman and Porter's work as a major breakthrough:
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (1965).
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1957· 1 entry
Edelman joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as a graduate fellow, working in the laboratory of Henry Kunkel and receiving a Ph
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1929· 2 entries
Born 1929-07-01.
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In Ozone Park, Queens, New York, to Jewish parents, physician Edward Edelman, and Anna (née Freedman) Edelman, who worked in the insurance industry
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