Gerald Edelman Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-11-05
Immunologist whose work investigated antibody structure and its relationship to molecular recognition. His Nobel lecture connects chemical analysis of immunoglobulins with an explanation of how antibody chains and domains support biological specificity.[ref]
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Portrait of Gerald Edelman
. Anders Långberg (Anders Zakrisson), Flickr photograph, 30 September 2010. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.