Niels K. Jerne

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984

“for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies”

Niels K. Jerne was a Danish immunologist affiliated with the Basel Institute for Immunology. He shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and for the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.

Field

Medicine · Immunology

Lifespan

1911–1994