Argentine biochemist. In 1983, he was named head of the Protein and Nucleic Acid division at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. In 1984, he and two collaborators, Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler, were awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for theories Concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975, was a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1980 to 2002, awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1980, won the Copley Medal in 1989, and became a Companion of Honour in 1995.
Cause of death: heart failure.
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Cremated in Cambridge Crematorium
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975, was a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1980 to 2002, awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1980, won the Copley Medal in 1989, and became a Companion of Honour in 1995.
Cause of death: heart failure.
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Cremated in Cambridge Crematorium
Argentine biochemist. In 1983, he was named head of the Protein and Nucleic Acid division at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. In 1984, he and two collaborators, Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler, were awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for theories Concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975, was a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1980 to 2002, awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1980, won the Copley Medal in 1989, and became a Companion of Honour in 1995.
Cause of death: heart failure.
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Cremated in Cambridge Crematorium
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975, was a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1980 to 2002, awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1980, won the Copley Medal in 1989, and became a Companion of Honour in 1995.
Cause of death: heart failure.
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Cremated in Cambridge Crematorium
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