The 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded last week to a Jewish biologist of New York and a reportedly non-Jewish professor of London, both of whom have ties with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. They will share $101,000 for their research on antibodies. The Jewish co-winner was Dr. Gerald Maurice Edelman, 43, of Rockefeller University, a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute.
Last Oct., Dr. Edelman conducted research in the institute’s laboratories. He was born in New York and educated at Ursinus College, Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He and his wife of 22 years, the former Maxine Morrison, have three children–Eric, 15; David, 12 and Judith, 7. The prize’s co-winner. Dr. Rodney Robert Porter, 55, of Oxford University, has cooperated in research in England with Dr. David Givol of the Weizmann Institute staff.
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