Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules.
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Greek-born philanthrophist
1952 · Brazil
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Actor
1967 · Canada
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Actor
1977 · United States
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2003 · Canada
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Actor
1952 · Canada
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