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Prize share: 1/2. 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". To cite this section. MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024.
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Gerald Edelman, Rodney Porter, By clarifying the principal...
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Edelman’s and Porter’s methods yielded different...
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Gerald M. Edelman. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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Dec 2, 2016 · Notably, the antibody topologies independently proposed by Porter and Edelman were very similar and remarkably accurate. In 1969, Edelman and colleagues obtained the complete primary sequence of a ...
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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.
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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Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1972 jointly to. Gerald Maurice Edelman and Rodney Robert Porter. for their discoveries concerning “the chemical structure of antibodies”. Antibodies is the collective name of a group of blood proteins that play an important part in the defense against ...
Apr 1, 2015 · G.M. Edelman's focus on the structure of antibodies led to the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with R.R. Porter. Since the discovery of Edelman, it has established that antibodies are capable of an extraordinary array of important functions. Edelman's career has been eclectic, and highly successful.
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Scientists had understood since the turn of the 20th century that antibodies exist to fight off foreign substances that enter the body, but how they recognize the enormous number of bacteria, toxins and other antigens encountered during a lifetime was a mystery until the work of Dr. Edelman and English biochemist Rodney Porter, with whom he shared the 1972 Nobel Prize.
