Niels Kaj Jerne FRS was a Danish (English-born) immunologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1984. The citation read "For theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies". He shared the prize with Georges J. F. Köhler and César Milstein. Wikipedia
... of monoclonal antibodies" Niels K. Jerne Georges J.F. Khler Csar Milstein 1/3 of the prize 1/3 of the prize 1/3 of the prize Denmark Federal Republic of Germany Argentina and ... nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1984/
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My parents, Hans Jessen Jerne and Else Marie Lindberg, and their ancestors (back to the seventeenth century and earlier) all lived on the island Fan and in a small adjacent area of western Jutland in Denmark. www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1984/jerne-autobio.html
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