Editing Gerald Edelman (section)

{{Short description|American biologist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| image             = Gerald Edelman.jpg
| birth_name        = Gerald Maurice Edelman
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1929|7|1}}
| birth_place       = New York City, U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2014|5|17|1929|7|1}}
| death_place       = [[La Jolla, California]], U.S.
| field             = [[Immunology]]<br />[[Neuroscience]]<br />[[Philosophy of mind]]
| work_institutions = 
| doctoral_advisor  = 
| doctoral_students = [[Paul David Gottlieb]], [[Olaf Sporns]]
| known_for         = 
| influences        = 
| influenced        = 
| prizes            = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (1972)
| spouse            = {{Marriage|Maxine M. Morrison|1950}}
| education         = [[Ursinus College]] ([[B. S.|BS]])<br />[[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[M. D.|MD]])<br />[[Rockefeller University]] ([[PhD]])
}}
'''Gerald Maurice Edelman''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɛ|d|əl|m|ən}}; July 1, 1929 – May 17, 2014) was an American [[biologist]] who shared the 1972 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for work with [[Rodney Robert Porter]] on the [[immune system]].<ref name="Nobel Prize">{{Nobelprize|name=Gerald M. Edelman|access-date=2020-10-11}}</ref>  Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of [[antibody]] molecules.<ref name="Edelman1961">[http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=13889151 Structural differences among antibodies of different specificities] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508235645/http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed |date=May 8, 2006 }} by G. M. Edelman, B. Benacerraf, Z. Ovary and M. D. Poulik in ''Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A'' (1961) volume 47, pages 1751-1758.</ref>  In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. There is a continuity in this way between his work on the immune system, for which he won the [[Nobel Prize]], and his later work in [[neuroscience]] and in [[philosophy of mind]].