Awards & Winners

George Davis Snell

Date of Birth 19-December-1903
Place of Birth Bradford
(Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Geneticist, Immunologist
George Davis Snell was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.

Awards by George Davis Snell

Check all the awards nominated and won by George Davis Snell.

1980


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions.)

1978


Wolf Prize in Medicine
(for discovery of H-2 antigens, which codes for major transplantation antigens and the onset of the immune response.)

1976


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For his identification of the major histocompatibility complex in mice, and for establishing methods of study fundamental to immunogenetics.)