Susumu Tonegawa
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1987for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity
- Citizenship
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Japan - Languages
- English, Japanese
- date of birth
- 9/5/1939
- place of birth
- Nagoya
- date of death
- 7/11/2026
- place of death
- San Mateo
- Lived
- 86 years
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- educated at
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- University of California, San Diego
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- Kyoto University
- Hibiya High School
- University of California, San Diego
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1986
- European Molecular Biology Organization
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- employer
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- RIKEN
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Basel Institute for Immunology
- field of work
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- molecular biology
- immunology
- neuroscience
- occupation
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- professor
- chemist
- geneticist
- neuroscientist
- immunologist
- molecular biologist
- scientist
- physician
- university teacher