César Milstein
Argentine biochemist (1927–2002) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
César Milstein, CH, FRS[2] (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research.[4][5][6][7][8] Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.[9][10][11][12][3][13][14]
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Born | (1927-10-08)8 October 1927 Bahía Blanca, Argentina |
Died | 24 March 2002(2002-03-24) (aged 74) Cambridge, England |
Nationality | Argentine, naturalised as British |
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Known for | Receiving Nobel Prize "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies" |
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Celia Prilleltensky (m. 1953) |
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Fields | Biochemistry |
Doctoral advisor | Andrés O.M. Stoppani[3] |
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