Niels Kaj Jerne - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1984
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Niels Kaj Jerne

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1984
for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies
Citizenship
Kingdom of Denmark Kingdom of Denmark
Languages
Danish
date of birth
12/23/1911
place of birth
London
date of death
10/7/1994
place of death
Castillon-du-Gard
Lived
82 years
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1979
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/20/1980
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1975
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1981
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
educated at
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Leiden University
occupation
  • university teacher
  • immunologist
  • physician
employer
  • University of Pittsburgh
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