Nobel Peace Prize Laureates (1901 -2013)

Emil Adolph Von Behring For developed serum treatment, especially in Diphtheria Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1901 Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich For their studies regarding immune reactions and phagocytic cells Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1908 Alexis Carrel For the development of organ and blood vessel transplantation Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1912 Charles Robert Richet For the discovery and treated anaphylactic shock Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1913 Jules Bordet For the fundamental discoveries in immunity Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1919 Karl Landsteiner For the discovery of the ABO human blood groups Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1930 Max Theiler For the development of the vaccine for yellow fever Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1951 Daniel Bovet For the development of antihistamines and synthetic curare Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1957 F. M. Burnet and Peter B. Medawar For the discovery of the basis of acquired immunological tolerance Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1960 Charles B. Huggins and Francis Peyton Rous For the studies made to the role of hormones in causing cancer; demonstrated that viruses can cause cancer in animals Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1966 Gerald M. Edelman and Rodney R. Porter "For their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1972 Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek "For their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1976 Rosalyn S. Yalow, R. C. I. Guillemin and A. V. Schally For the development of radioimmunossay (RIA) techniques; used RIA to analyze peptide hormones in the brain Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1977

Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George D. Snell "For their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"

Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1980

Georg Kohler, Cesar Milstein and Niel Jerne "For theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1984 Susumu Tonegawa "For his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1987 Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas For the advanced understanding of organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1990 Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel "For their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defense" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1996 Stanley B. Prusiner "For his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 1997 Harald zur Hausen "For his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 2008 Franoise Barr-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier "For their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 2008 Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann "For their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 2011 Ralph M. Steinman "For his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity" Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 2011

END Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me, for I needed to take care of my family and myself. -Monica Lewinsky