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Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

Gerald Edelman

Gerald Edelman

Gerald Edelman

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Born: July 1, 1929

Died: May 17, 2014 (aged 84)

Bio: Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules.

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Neural Darwinism (1978)
Wider than the Sky (2004)

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