Macfarlane Burnet
1899 – 1985 · Australia · Medicine, Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1960
Acquired immune tolerance, the basis of transplantation.
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- César Milstein
1927 – 2002 · Medicine, Chemistry
Clonal selection theory is what makes a monoclonal antibody conceptually possible.
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