BIOLOGIST

Georges J. F. Köhler

1946 - 1995

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Georges Jean Franz Köhler (German pronunciation: [ˈʒɔʁʃ ˈkøːlɐ] ; 17 April 1946 – 1 March 1995) 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". Milstein and Köhler's technique for producing monoclonal antibodies laid the foundation for the exploitation of antibodies for diagnostics, therapeutics and many other scientific applications. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges J. F. Köhler is the 104th most popular biologist (up from 167th in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,247th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georges J. F. Köhler ranks 104 out of 1,097. Before him are Nikolai Vavilov, Erwin Neher, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Janaki Ammal, Ulisse Aldrovandi, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. After him are Philip Miller, Jean-Henri Fabre, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Stanley B. Prusiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Georges J. F. Köhler ranks 75. Before him are Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Charles Bolden, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Ilie Năstase, Stefania Sandrelli, and Barry Gibb. After him are John Woo, Talia Shire, Michele Placido, Colin Bell, Dragan Džajić, and Bob Beamon. Among people deceased in 1995, Georges J. F. Köhler ranks 31. Before him are Clair Cameron Patterson, U Nu, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Lana Turner, Souphanouvong, and Donald Pleasence. After him are Selena, Alec Douglas-Home, John B. Calhoun, Edda Mussolini, Edward Bernays, and Hugo Pratt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georges J. F. Köhler ranks 716 out of 7,253. Before him are Julia Drusilla (16), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), Frank Farian (1941), Karl Gebhardt (1897), Otto Strasser (1897), and Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797). After him are Steffi Graf (1969), Matilda of Ringelheim (894), Clemens Brentano (1778), Johann Georg Faust (1480), Nina Hagen (1955), and Werner Sombart (1863).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Georges J. F. Köhler ranks 15. Before him are August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Ernst Mayr (1904), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Erwin Neher (1944), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795). After him are Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Bernard Katz (1911), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), and Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775).

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