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Gerald Edelman
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- 1Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman honoured on his birthday●Gerald Edelman, born OTD in 1917, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972 for work on the immune system and the structure of
Anniversaries are marking Gerald Edelman, the American biologist born on this day in 1917. Edelman shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rodney Porter for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies, work that laid the foundation for modern immunology. He later turned to neuroscience, developing the theory of neuronal group selection. Science writers are recalling his dual legacy across immunology and brain research.