Niels K. Jerne

Awards

1. 1970

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   In recognition of his contributions to knowledge of the cellular basis of the immune response. His formulation of the natural selection theory provided the first comprehensive model based on broad biological principles, and his discovery of a rapid, quantitative method for enumerating antibody-producing cells made possible a new approach to experimental studies of cellular events during immunization, both in his own laboratory and throughout the world.

2. 1984

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies