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- 1Gerald Edelman, Nobel-winning immunologist, remembered 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
Gerald Edelman, the American biologist born on this day in 1917, is being remembered for winning the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on the chemical structure of antibody molecules, work that advanced understanding of the immune system. He later turned to neuroscience, developing the theory of neuronal group selection before his death in 2014.