Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Gerald Edelman
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.
Known for:
- Neural Darwinism (1978)
- Wider than the Sky (2004)