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This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/ Nobel Lectures / The Nobel Prizes. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate. César Milstein died on March 24, 2002. MLA style: César Milstein – Biographical.
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César Milstein was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, on October 8, 1927. His father, a Jewish immigrant who made the journey from Ukraine to Argentina by himself as a teenager, and his mother, a teacher who was raised in a working class, immigrant family, made education a priority for César and his two brothers and encouraged them to attend universi...
César Milstein was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with his former postdoctoral fellow Georges J. F. Köhler (AAI '85) and theoretician Niels Jerne(AAI '73). Milstein and Köhler won the prize for developing the hybridoma method of producing monoclonal antibodies. Today, monoclonal antibodies are at the cutting edge of ...
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César Milstein, CH, FRS [1] (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.
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Dec 2, 2016 · On 7 August 1975, Nature published a three-page report by César Milstein and Georges J. F. Köhler describing a method for generating large amounts of monoclonal antibodies of a predefined ...
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Jun 1, 2002 · Nature Immunology - In memoriam: César Milstein, who with the late Georges Köhler invented monoclonal antibodies, died on 24 March 2002. Their invention sprang from basic research on...
Jun 1, 2002 · It will not be an exaggeration to describe César Milstein's contribution to science and medicine as one of the most important ever made, and the engineering of monoclonal antibodies was by far the most important immunological discovery of the past century. The ability to produce monoclonal antibodies in the test tube, in unlimited quantities and to any sort of antigen, opened unforeseen ...
