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    Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS (23 December 1911 – 7 October 1994) was a Danish immunologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Georges...
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    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...
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    dominated immunology in the next decades. In 1955, Danish immunologist Niels Jerne put forward a hypothesis that there is already a vast array of soluble...
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    In the mid-1950s, Macfarlane Burnet, inspired by a suggestion made by Niels Jerne, formulated the clonal selection theory (CST) of immunity. On the basis...
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  • plaque assay for the enumeration of antibody-forming cells in vitro by Niels Jerne and Albert Nordin 1963 – Gell and Coombs classification of hypersensitivity...
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    "idiotype" became influential in immunology when Niels Jerne formulated his immune network theory. Jerne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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    clonal selection hypothesis and since 1974 has been developed mainly by Niels Jerne and Geoffrey W. Hoffmann, is seen as being relevant to the understanding...
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    1984 (shared with Georges Köhler and Niels Jerne) Georges Köhler 1984 (shared with César Milstein and Niels Jerne) John Walker 1997 (shared with Paul D...
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    innovation flowing both ways: the clonal selection theory developed by Niels Jerne and Frank Macfarlane Burnet in the mid-1950s helped shed light on the...
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    Tinbergen, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Tjalling Koopmans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, and Niels Jerne. Other notable Leiden researchers were the Arabist and Islam expert Christiaan...
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    Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983: Barbara McClintock 1984: Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein 1985: Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein...
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    Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983: Barbara McClintock 1984: Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein 1985: Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein...
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  • Danish admiral Niels Christian Kaldau (born 1974), Danish badminton player Niels Kaas (1535–1594), Danish politician Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994), Danish...
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    Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983: Barbara McClintock 1984: Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein 1985: Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein...
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  • antigen. This type of regulation was proposed by Danish immunologist Niels Jerne in 1974. He termed it the "Network Hypothesis". This type of B lymphocyte...
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  • adaptive immune system works, that has been developed since 1974 mainly by Niels Jerne and Geoffrey W. Hoffmann. The theory states that the immune system is...
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  • for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self" 1984 Niels Jerne (1911-1994), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946-1995) and César Milstein (1927-2002)...
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    Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983: Barbara McClintock 1984: Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein 1985: Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein...
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    Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983: Barbara McClintock 1984: Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein 1985: Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein...
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    Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1984 with Niels Jerne and Georges Köhler. Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS FMedSci HonFRMS, a Nobel prize-winning...
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    Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983: Barbara McClintock 1984: Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein 1985: Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein...
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    Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John Vane 1983: Barbara McClintock 1984: Niels Jerne / Georges Köhler / César Milstein 1985: Michael Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein...
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  • its founding director Niels K. Jerne. Jerne retired in 1980 and was succeeded by Fritz Melchers, who generally maintained Jerne's themes and vision. The...
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  • prize winners have been from Denmark. The first Danish Nobel laureate was Niels Ryberg Finsen, who won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903 for his work on...
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  • Nobel Prize in 1960. Burnet's work continued and in 1957 along with Niels Jerne published a paper that modified and revolutionized antibody theory. "Burnet...
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  • 1974), Canadian journalist Kaj Ikast (1935–2020), Danish politician Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994), Danish immunologist Kaj Leo Johannesen (born 1964), Prime...
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  • Hoffmann subsequently joined the Basel Institute for Immunology, where Niels Jerne had proposed that the immune system is a network, consisting of antibodies...
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  • March 1995) was a German biologist. Together with César Milstein and Niels Kaj Jerne, Köhler won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984, "for...
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    Nobel Prize for Chemistry Hans Bethe: 1967 Nobel Prize for Physics Niels Kaj Jerne: 1984 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine Gerd Binnig: 1986 Nobel...
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    earned them the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Niels Kaj Jerne. Holliday, R; Ho, T (1998). "evidence for gene silencing by endogenous...
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