Gerald Edelman

Gerald Edelman
Born
Gerald Maurice Edelman

(1929-07-01)July 1, 1929
New York City, U.S.
DiedMay 17, 2014(2014-05-17) (aged 84)
EducationUrsinus College (BS)
University of Pennsylvania (MD)
Rockefeller University (PhD)
Spouse
Maxine M. Morrison
(m. 1950)
AwardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1972)
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
Neuroscience
Philosophy of mind
Doctoral studentsPaul David Gottlieb, Olaf Sporns

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] In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. There is a continuity in this way between his work on the immune system, for which he won the Nobel Prize, and his later work in neuroscience and in philosophy of mind.

  1. ^ Gerald M. Edelman on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata, accessed 11 October 2020
  2. ^ Structural differences among antibodies of different specificities Archived May 8, 2006, at the Wayback Machine by G. M. Edelman, B. Benacerraf, Z. Ovary and M. D. Poulik in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1961) volume 47, pages 1751-1758.

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