<The Nobel Laureates of the LMB

John Walker, 1997, Chemistry>

Georges Köhler - 1984 Physiology or Medicine

Georges Köhler was born in Munich in 1946. He entered the University of Freiburg in 1965 to study Biology. In 1971 he received a Diploma in Biology for work on repair-deficient strains of Escherichia coli and in 1974 obtained a PhD for immunological studies on the enzyme b-galactosidase under Fritz Melchers.

In 1974 he joined César Milstein’s group at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and in 1975 they published in Nature the results of their work leading to the production of monoclonal antibodies “Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity”.

In 1976 he became a member of the Basel Institute for Immunology, working on lymphocyte hybrids. Georges Köhler died in 1995 aged 49.
(jointly with Niels Jerne and César Milstein)


"for theories concerning the specificity in control and development of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"

Production of Monoclonal Antibodies against Surface Antigens.

Production of Monoclonal Antibodies against Surface Antigens.

Fred Sanger, 1958     Max Perutz, 1962     John Kehnndrew, 1962     Francis Crick, 1962
James Watson, 1962     Fred Sanger, 1980     Aaron Klug, 1982
César Milstein, 1984     John Walker, 1997
Sydney Brenner, 2002     John Sulston, 2002     Robert Horvitz, 2002