Edelman, Gerald M

LC control no.	n 84075979
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Edelman, Gerald M. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	19290701
Death date	20140517
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)
Affiliation	Scripps Research Institute Neurosciences Institute (La Jolla, San Diego, Calif.)
Profession or occupation	Biologists Nobel Prize winners
Found in	Dynamic aspects of neocortical function, c1984: CIP t.p. (Gerald M. Edelman) LC data base, 5-3-84 (hdg.: Edelman, Gerald M.) NLM files, 12-23-84 (b. 1929) Wider than the sky, c2004: ECIP t.p. (Gerald M. Edelman) data view (b. July 1, 1929) BL auth. file, 25 Oct. 2007 (hdg.: Edelman, Gerald M. (Gerald Maurice), 1929-) Wikipedia, May 21, 2014 (Gerald Maurice Edelman (July 1, 1929-May 17, 2014 was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work with Roldney Robert Porter on the immune system. His research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. There is a continuity in this way between his work on the immune system, for which he won the Nobel Prize, and his later work in neuroscience and in philosophy of mind. In 1992 he became a professor of neurobiology at The Scripps Research Institute; founded and directed the Neurosciences Institute; died in La Jolla, San Diego, California)
Associated language	eng