ScienceSusumu Tonegawa, Japan’s first Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, dies at 86
Susumu Tonegawa, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, has died at the age of 86. He elucidated how antibodies, a form of immune defense that protects the body, are produced. In 1987, Tonegawa became the first Japanese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Susumu Tonegawa, Japan’s first Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, dies at 86
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