biography
pronunciation:
[yernuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911–94)
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| biography:
| Immunologist, born in London, UK of Danish parents. He studied at Leyden, worked at the Danish State Serum Institute (1943–55), and later took a medical degree at Copenhagen. He was chief medical officer of the World Health Organization (1956–62), and founding-director of the Institute of Immunology at Basel (1969–80). For his research into the way the immune system in the body creates antibodies against disease, he shared the 1984 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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