Awards & Winners

Georges J. F. Köhler

Date of Birth 17-April-1946
Place of Birth Munich
(Germany, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria)
Nationality Germany
Also know as Georges J. F. Kohler
Profession Scientist
Georges Jean Franz Köhler was a German biologist. Together with César Milstein and Niels Kaj Jerne, Köhler won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984, "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies". A portion of this research was performed at the Basel Institute for Immunology. In 1984 he became director of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology where he worked until his death in 1995.

Awards by Georges J. F. Köhler

Check all the awards nominated and won by Georges J. F. Köhler.

1984


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For his imaginative concepts and painstaking experiments which produced the first hybridoma and made possible monoclonal antibody technology.)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.)

1981


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of their application of a cell-fusion technique to form immortal cell lines which produce antibodies of a single specificity.)