biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| Immunologist, born in Caracas, Venezuela. He moved to Paris with his family (1925) and emigrated to the USA (1940). After his medical internship and US Army service (1945–8), he joined Columbia University (1948–50). He performed research in Paris (1950–6), relocated to New York University (1956–68), moved to the National Institutes of Health (1968–70), then joined Harvard (1970–91), concurrently serving the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston (1980). He began studies of allergies in 1948, and discovered the Ir (immune response) genes that govern transplant rejection (1960s). In 1972 he demonstrated the existence of T and B lymphocytes. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to cellular immunology, continued his T-cell research, and remained active in many professional societies. |
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