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Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
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Susumu Tonegawa
Japanese scientist (born 1939)
Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)