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Biographical. Dr. Gerald M. Edelman was born on July 1, 1929 in New York City to Edward Edelman and Anna Freedman Edelman. His father is a practicing physician in New York. After his education in New York public schools, Edelman attended Ursinus College in Pennsylvania and received the B.S. degree, magna cum laude, in 1950.
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Gerald Edelman. Gerald Maurice Edelman (/ ˈɛdəlmən /; July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. [1] Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. [2]
Gerald Maurice Edelman (born July 1, 1929, Queens, New York, U.S.—died May 17, 2014, La Jolla, San Diego, California) was an American physician and physical chemist who elucidated the structure of antibodies —proteins that are produced by the body in response to infection. For that work, he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine ...
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May 17, 2014 · Gerald M. Edelman. 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 obituaryJun 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. Edelman's work in the 1960s revealed the chemical structure of antibody molecules, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...
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Dr. Edelman will long be remembered for his remarkably diverse scientific contributions, his strength of character, erudition, integrity, and humor, and for the warmth and dedication he showed to those fortunate enough to share his vision. He is survived by his wife, Maxine, and three children: David, Eric, and Judith. Conflict of interest ...
