gerald m. edelman

noun

Gerald Maurice, born 1929, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize for medicine 1972.

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Edelman (ˈɛd^əlmən)

—n
	Gerald Maurice. born 1929, US biochemist: he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1972) with Rodney Porter for determining the structure of antibodies

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Edelman Ed·el·man (ěd'l-mən), Gerald Maurice. Born 1929.

American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies.

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Edelman

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American biochemist who shared with Rodney Porter the 1972 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for their research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies.

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"The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories."

-Gerald M. Edelman

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