1972 Press Photo Dr. Gerald Edelman shares Nobel Prize for 1972 - now02656
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An American who abandoned a career as a violinist to become a scientific sleuth and an English biochemist shared on Thursday the 1972 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Dr. Gerald Maurice Edelman, 43, of Rockefeller University in New York and Dr. Rodney R. Porter of Oxford University in England broke down the chemical structure of anti-bodies that are important in the human body's defense against disease.
