| Gerald M. Edelman  AKA Gerald Maurice Edelman
Born: 1-Jul-1929
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 17-May-2014
Location of death: La Jolla, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist, Doctor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Chemical structure of antibodies Military service: US Army Medical Corps (to Captain, 1955-57) For his research into antibodies (proteins produced by the body to defend against infection), American chemist Gerald M. Edelman was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. He shared that year's honors with British biochemist Rodney R. Porter. Father: Edward Edelman (physician)
Mother: Anna Freedman Edelman
Wife: Maxine M. Morrison Edelman (editor, m. 1950, until his death, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Eric Edelman
Son: David Edelman
Daughter: Judith Edelman (bluegrass musician)
High School: John Adams High School, New York City (1946)
University: BS, Ursinus College (1950)
Medical School: MD, University of Pennsylvania (1954)
University: PhD Physical Chemistry, Rockefeller University (1960)
Teacher: Graduate Studies, Rockefeller University (1960-66)
Professor: Neuroscience, Rockefeller University (1966-92)
Scholar: National Institutes of Health (1964-67)
Administrator: Director, Neurosciences Institute (1981-)
Administrator: Chairman of Neurobiology Department, Scripps Research Institute (1992-)
Nobel Prize for Medicine 1972 (with Rodney R. Porter)
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Philosophical Society
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Carnegie Institution for Science Trustee (1987)
Century Association
Cosmos Club
Council on Foreign Relations
National Academy of Sciences
New York Academy of Sciences
New York Botanical Garden
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Trustee (1972-82)
Salk Institute for Biological Studies Fellowship (1973-85), Trustee (1975-85)
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Risk Factors: Parkinson's, Prostate Cancer
Author of books:
Cellular Selection and Regulation in the Immune Response (1974)
The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function (1978, with Vernon B. Mountcastle)
Dynamic Aspects of Neocortical Function (1984, with W. Einar Gall and W. Maxwell Cowan)
Molecular Bases of Neural Development (1985, with W. Einar Gall and W. Maxwell Cowan)
The Cell in Contact: Adhesions and Junctions as Morphogenetic Determinants (1985, with Jean-Paul Thiery)
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (1987)
Synaptic Function (1987, with W. Einar Gall and W. Maxwell Cowan)
Auditory Function: Neurobiological Bases of Hearing (1988, with W. Einar Gall and W. Maxwell Cowan)
Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology (1988)
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness (1989)
Morphoregulatory Molecules (1990, with Bruce A. Cunningham and Jean Paul Thiery)
Signal and Sense: Local and Global Order in Perceptual Maps (1990, with W. Einar Gall and W. Maxwell Cowan)
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind (1992)
A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter becomes Imagination (2000, with Giulio Tononi)
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness (2004)
Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge (2007)
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