Niels K. Jerne

Niels K. Jerne

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1984)

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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.