Died 1994-10-07.
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Niels Kaj Jerne
Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS was a Danish immunologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Georges J. F. Köhler and César Milstein "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies".
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science · Danish immunologist (1911–1994) · immunologist · physician · university teacher · also Niels Kaj Jerne, Jerne
Born 23 December 1911 · Died 7 October 1994 · Q309876
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1994· 1 entry
1984· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1982).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Basel (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Member of the Académie des Sciences (1981)
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Copenhagen (1979).
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Marcel Benoist Prize (1978).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from Columbia University (1978).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1970).
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1969· 1 entry
Jerne again switched jobs, this time to Basel in Switzerland, where he was the Director of the Basel Institute for Immunology until his retirement in 1980
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1966· 1 entry
Jerne moved back to Europe and took up the position of Professor of Experimental Therapy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt
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1962· 1 entry
To work as Professor of Microbiology and Chairman of the Department of Microbiology for four years
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1956· 1 entry
Jerne went to work for the World Health Organization in Geneva, where he served as the Head of the Sections of Biological Standards and of Immunology
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1936· 1 entry
He had two sons, Ivar Jerne (born 1936) and Donald Jerne (born 1941), with Tjek Jerne, a painter.
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-12-23.
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1910· 1 entry
His parents moved to London, where Jerne was born in 1911
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