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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. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. In interviews, he has said that the way the…

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Education
Ursinus College (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MD) Rockefeller University (PhD)
Born
Gerald Maurice Edelman (1929-07-01)July 1, 1929 New York City, U.S.
Died
May 17, 2014(2014-05-17) (aged 84) La Jolla, California, U.S.
Doctoral students
Paul David Gottlieb, Olaf Sporns
Fields
Immunology Neuroscience Philosophy of mind

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