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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 was awarded jointly to Gerald M. Edelman and Rodney R. Porter "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies"
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May 17, 2014 · The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972. Born: 1 July 1929, New York, NY, USA. Died: 17 May 2014, La Jolla, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies”. Prize share: 1/2.
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Gerald Maurice Edelman was born in New York City on July 1, 1929, Edelman earned his B.S. in chemistry at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania (1950), and his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania (1954). He served as house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital for one year before enlisting in the Army Medical Corps in 1955. It wa...
Gerald M. Edelman, Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rodney R. Porter(AAI '73) for their related but independent work on the molecular structure of antibodies. Although scientists had studied antibodies since the late nineteenth century, their understanding of how antibodies ...
Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, 1965Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1969Nobel Prize biographyRockefeller University profileNew York Times obituaryGerald Maurice Edelman, American physician and physical chemist who elucidated the structure of antibodies, which are proteins that are produced by the body in response to infection. For that work, he shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Rodney Porter.
With this discovery, Rockefeller University alumnus Gerald M. Edelman uncovered our own natural weapon against foreign pathogens, shedding new light on one of the darkest corners of human mortality. For this achievement, he received the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
