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Gerald Edelman was born in 1929 [3] in Ozone Park, Queens, New York, to Jewish parents, physician Edward Edelman, and Anna (née Freedman) Edelman, who worked in the insurance industry. [4] He studied violin for years, but eventually realized that he did not have the inner drive needed to pursue a career as a concert violinist, and decided to go into medical research instead. [ 5 ]
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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. Learn more about Edelman’s life and work.
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Jun 27, 2014 · Gerald M. Edelman, who was born in New York in 1929, died at his home in La Jolla, California, on 17 May 2014. With him, biology has lost a great scientist and something even rarer—a profound thinker.
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May 23, 2014 · Gerald Maurice Edelman was born on July 1, 1929, in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens. He grew up there and in Long Beach, N.Y. His father, Edward, was a doctor; his mother, the former Anna ...
Oct 1, 2018 · Gerald Edelman was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, to Edward (d. 1979?), a physician, and Anna (née Friedmann 1899–1983) who worked in insurance. Music, literature and the visual arts were among his early interests, a love that remained throughout his life so that he displayed a deep knowledge of them though he opted not to follow his first calling in life to become a concert ...
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Gerald M. Edelman, a Rockefeller alumnus, former faculty member and Nobel laureate who uncovered the chemical structure of the antibody in 1961, died on May 18 at the age of 84. A graduate of Henry Kunkel’s laboratory and a member of the university’s second graduating class, Dr. Edelman received his Ph.D. in 1960 and remained at Rockefeller for 34 years, becoming Vincent Astor Professor ...
