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   | The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984   
   | Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein   
   | My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina, and was left to   
   | his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the   
   | daughter of a poor immigrant family. For both my mother and my father, no   
   | sacrifice was too hard to make sure that their three sons (I was the   
   middle   
   | one) would go to university. I wasn't a particularly brilliant student,   
   but   
   | on the other hand I was very active in Student Union affairs and in   
   student   
   | politics. It was in this way that I met my wife, Celia. After graduation,   
   we   
   | married, and took a full year off in a most unusual and romantic   
   honeymoon,   
   | hitch-hiking our way through most countries in Europe, including a couple   
   of   
   | months working in Israel kibbutzim. As we returned to Argentina, I started   
   | seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of   
   Professor   
   | Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School. My PhD   
   thesis   
   | work was done with no economic support. Both Celia and I worked part-time   
   | doing clinical biochemistry, between us earning just enough to keep us   
   | going. My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde   
   | dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council   
   | Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon. There, in the   
   | Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, I started a   
   | project on the mechanism of metal activation of the enzyme   
   | phosphoglucomutase. It was through that enzyme that I started to   
   collaborate   
   | with Fred Sanger. I have described this collaboration in some detail   
   | previously (Lynen Lecture; Miami Winter Symp. Proc., In: "From gene to   
   | protein: translation into biotechnology"; Ed. W. Whelan, Academic Press,   
   | 1982). It was after completing my PhD thesis that I took a short-term   
   | appointment with the Medical Research Council in Sanger's group, and then   
   | returned to Argentina for a period of two years. During that period I   
   | extended my studies of mechanisms of enzyme action to the enzymes   
   | phosphoglyceromutase and alkaline phosphatase. It was then that I had my   
   | first experience at directing other people's work, including my first   
   | research student. The political persecution of liberal intellectuals and   
   | scientists manifested itself as a vendetta against the director of the   
   | institute where I was working. This forced my resignation and return to   
   | Cambridge to rejoin Fred Sanger, who by then had been appointed Head of   
   the   
   | Division of Protein Chemistry in the newly-formed Laboratory of Molecular   
   | Biology of the Medical Research Council. Following his suggestion, I   
   shifted   
   | my interests from enzymology to immunology. The evolution of my research   
   in   
   | this area is described in the Lynen Lecture as mentioned above and in the   
   | Nobel Lecture.   
   |   
   | Born 8 October 1927, in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Married in 1953, to Celia   
   | (née Prilleltensky). No children.   
   |   
   |      1939-1944 Colegio Nacional, Bahía Blanca (Bachiller)   
   |      1945-1952 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Buenos Aires   
   | (Licenciado en Ciencias Químicas)   
   |      1950-1956 Part-time clinical analyst at Laboratorios Liebeschutz   
   |      1952-1957 Research Student at the Instituto de Química Biológica,   
   | Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires   
   |      1957 Doctor en Química (Universidad de Buenos Aires)   
   |      1957-1963 Staff of Instituto Nacional de Microbiología, Buenos Aires   
   | (Leave of absence 1958-1961)   
   |      1958-1960 British Council Fellowship at the Department of   
   | Biochemistry, University of Cambridge   
   |      1960 Ph.D. degree (University of Cambridge)   
   |      1960-1961 Scientific staff of Medical Research Council at the   
   | Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge   
   |      1961-1963 Head of División de Biología Molecular, Instituto Nacional   
   | de Microbiología, Buenos Aires   
   |      1963- Scientific Staff of Medical Research Council Laboratory of   
   | Molecular Biology, Cambridge   
   |      1983 Head, Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division, Cambridge   
   |   
   | Honorary member, Scandinavian Immunological Societies (1970); Member,   
   | European Molecular Biology Organization (1974); Fellow of the Royal   
   Society   
   | (1975); Honorary member, American Association of Immunologists (1979);   
   | Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge (1980); Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam   
   | College, Cambridge (1982); Foreign Associate, National Academy of   
   Sciences,   
   | USA (1981); Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (1983); Foreign   
   | Honorary Member, American Academy of Art and Sciences (1983); Member of   
   the   
   | Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1983); Académico   
   | Correspondiente Extranjero of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas,   
   Fisicas   
   | y Naturales, Madrid (1984).   
   |   
   | Prizes and Awards   
   |   
   | Prize Herrero Doucloux of the Asociación Química Argentina (1957); CIBA   
   | Medal and Prize (1978); Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award, Brandeis University   
   | (1979); Avery-Landsteiner Prize, Society for Immunology (1979); V. D.   
   Mattia   
   | Lectureship Award, Roche Institute (1979); Adolph Rosenberg Award,   
   | University of Miami (1980); Wolf Prize in Medicine, Wolf Foundation,   
   Israel   
   | (1980); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University (1980); Robert   
   Koch   
   | Prize and Medal, Germany (1980); Royal Society Wellcome Foundation Prize   
   | (1980); Madonnina Award, Fondazione Carlo Erba, Milano (1981); William   
   Bate   
   | Hardy Prize, Cambridge Philosophical Society (1981); Jimenéz Díaz Memorial   
   | Award, Fundación Conchita Rabago de Jimenéz Díaz, Spain (1981); General   
   | Motors Cancer Research Foundation Sloan Prize, USA (1981); The Gairdner   
   | Foundation Annual Award, Canada (1981); Krebs Medal, Federation of   
   European   
   | Biochemical Societies (1981); Brown-Hazen Memorial Award, Albany, New York   
   | (1982); Lynen Medal, Miami Winter Symposium (1982); Gerónimo Forteza   
   Medal,   
   | Valencia, Spain (1982); David Pressman Memorial Award, U.S.A. (1982);   
   | Biochemical Analysis Prize 1982, German Society for Clinical Chemistry   
   | (1982); Karl Landsteiner Award, American Association of Blood Banks   
   (1982);   
   | Royal Medal, Royal Society (1982); XI International Congress of   
   Allergology   
   | and Clinical Immunology Award (1982); Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize,   
      
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