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Born October 29, 1920 • Caracas • Venezuela
Died August 2, 2011 (aged 90) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1980)
Subjects Of Study antigen-antibody reaction • autoimmune disease

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Japanese immunologist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Jean Dausset.
Jean Dausset
French hematologist and immunologist
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Baruch S. Blumberg, 1976.
Baruch S. Blumberg
American physician
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
Tonegawa Susumu
Japanese biologist
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
César Milstein
Argentine immunologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
Emil von Behring, 1914.
Emil von Behring
German bacteriologist
Carl Cori
American biochemist