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Monday, April 21, 2008

Nobel Prizes in immunology research

Year Recipient Country Research
1901 Emil von Behring Germany Serum antitoxins
1905 Robert Koch Germany Cellular immunity to tuberculosis
1908 Elie Metchnikoff Russia Role of phagocytosis (Metchnikoff) and

Paul Ehrlich Germany antitoxins (Ehrlich) in immunity
1913 Charles Richet France Anaphylaxis
1919 Jules Border Belgium Complement-mediated bacteriolysis
1930 Karl Landsteiner United States Discovery of human blood groups
1951 Max Theiler South Africa Development of yellow fever vaccine
1957 Daniel Bovet Switzerland Antihistamines
1960 F. Macfarlane Burnet Australia Discovery of acquired immunological

Peter Medawar Great Britain tolerance
1972 Rodney R. Porter Great Britain Chemical structure of antibodies

Gerald M. Edelman United States
1977 Rosalyn R. Yalow United States Development of radioimmunoassay
1980 George Snell United States Major histocompatibility complex

Jean Daussct France

Baruj Benacerraf United States
1984 Cesar Milstein Great Britain Monoclonal antibody

Georges E. Köhler Germany

Niels K. Jerne Denmark Immune regulatory theories
1987 Susumu Tonegawa Japan Gene rearrangement in antibody



production
1991 E. Donnall Thomas United States Transplantation immunology

Joseph Murray United States
1996 Peter C. Doherty Australia Role of major histocompatibility complex

Rolf M. Zinkernagel Switzerland in antigen recognition by by T cells

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