Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rodney Robert Porter for work on the immune system, in which he discovered the structure of antibody molecules. In 1957 he joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as a graduate fellow, working in the laboratory of Henry Kunkel, and the institute made him assistant and later associate dean of graduate studies before he became a professor in 1966. In 1992 he moved to California as professor of neurobiology at The Scripps Research Institute. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and the American Philosophical Society in 1977.
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July 1, 1929
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was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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The institute made him the assistant (later associate) dean of graduate studies
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shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system
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was an American biologist
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Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules
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Edelman joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as a graduate fellow
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both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1968) and the American Philosophical Society (1977)
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Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules
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"awardYear": "1972"
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