Nobel Prize Winners in Immunology Flashcards
Serum Antitoxins
Emil von behring (1901)
Cellular immunity in TB
Robert Koch (1905)
Phagocytosis
Elie Metchnikoff (1908)
Immunity - Side chain theory
Paul Ehrlich (1908)
Anaphylaxis
Charles Richet (& paul jules portier) (1913)
Complement System - “Bombs” of the immune system (Basis of immune hemolysis of
foreign RBC)
Jules Bordet (1919)
Human blood group antigens - Specificity of Serologic Reactions SSR
Karl Landsteiner (1930)
Discovery of immunologic tolerance
Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Medawar (1960)
Structure of Antibodies - Utilized enzymes and electrophoresis
Gerald Edelman, Rodney Porter (1972)
Radioimmunoassay
Rosalyn Yalow (1977)
Major histocompatibility complex - Established different factors to ensure histocompatibility - MHC, HLA
George Snell, Jean Dausset, Baruj Benacerraf (1980)
Immunoregulation
Niels Jerne (1984)
Monoclonal antibody - “Hybridoma technology”
George Koehler, Cesar Milstein (1984)
Antibody diversity
Susumu Tonegawa (1987)
Transplantation - BONE MARROW
Edward
Donnall Thomas (1991)