List of immunologists

This is a "list of notable immunologists."

Pioneers

*Edward Jenner (1749-1823), discovered that cowpox induces protection against smallpox
*Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), his experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, he also created the first vaccine for rabies

Nobel laureates

*1901 Emil Adolf von Behring (1854-1917), "for his serum therapy to treat diphtheria" (First ever Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
*1908 Eli Metchnikoff (1845-1916) and Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), "for study of the immune system"
*1919 Jules Bordet (1870-1961), "for discovery of the complement system in the immune system"
*1930 Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), "for discovery of human blood types"
*1960 Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987) and Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985), "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
*1972 Gerald Maurice Edelman (1929-) and Rodney Robert Porter (1917-1985), "for discovering the chemical structure of antibodies"
*1980 Baruj Benacerraf (1920-), Jean Dausset (1916-) and George Davis Snell (1903-1996), "for discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important 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) "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies"
*1987 Susumu Tonegawa (1939-), "for discovering how the large diversity of antibodies is produced genetically"
*1989 J. Michael Bishop (1936-) and Harold E. Varmus (1939-), "for discovering the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes"
*1996 Peter C. Doherty (1940-) and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944-) "for describing how MHC molecules are used by white blood cells to detect and kill virus-infected cells."

Notable Immunologists

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*Alan Aderem, innate immunity
*Lorne Babiuk
*Kiril Bratanov (1911-1986), pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction
*William Coley (1862-1936), pioneer of cancer immunotherapy
*Albert Coons (1912–1978), developed immunofluorescent techniques for labelling antibodies
*Eva Engvall, one of the scientists who invented ELISA in 1971.
*Denise Faustman Type 1 diabetes
*Ian Frazer development of a cervical cancer vaccine
*Samuel O. Freedman discovered Carcinoembryonic antigen
*Jules T. Freund (1890-1960)
*Sankar Ghosh
*John Grange
*Waldemar Haffkine (1860-1930), was the first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague.
*Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991), showed that antibodies are proteins.
*Leonard Herzenberg
*Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)
*Charles Janeway (1943-2003), wrote the standard textbook "Immunobiology"
*Tadamitsu Kishimoto
*Tak Wah Mak
*Polly Matzinger, immunological tolerance, Danger Model, Hyppo Model
*Ira Mellman
*Jacques Miller
*Avrion Mitchison
*Michael Neuberger
*Alan Munro
*Gustav Nossal
*Santa J. Ono
*Fred Rosen (1930-2005), discovered, the cause of X-linked hyper IgM syndrome.
*Richard R. Rosenthal
*Emil Skamene
*David Talmage clonal selection theory
*Reyes Tamez
*Jan Vilcek
*Ellen Vitetta
*Alexander S. Wiener (1907-1976)
*Don Wiley (1944-2001), crystallography of HLA proteins
*Ian Wilson (biologist)
*Ernst Witebsky (1901-1969), isolation and partial characterization of A and B blood antigens

Immunologists in Popular Culture

*Dr Allison Cameron, a character on the television show House M.D.