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Early Life & Education

Gerald Edelman was born in 1929 in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. He had Jewish parents father a physician mother in the insurance industry and was raised in New York. He attended Ursinus Colleg and received a B.S. and then received an M.D from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954.Then he practiced medicine in Feance serving the US Army Medical Corps. He continued studying and eventually received a phD in 1960..

 

Career

His very first job after University was working at the Massachusets General Hospital, and later went on and became a proffesser of neurology. After winning his nobel prize he went on reasearching control of cell growth and its function in the nervous system. He also founded The Neurosciences Institute

 

Personal Life

Edelman is married to Madame M. Morrison and they have 3 children, two sons and a daughter. Their daughter Judith is a musician while Eric is an artist and David a neuroscientist

 

Nobel Prize

While in Paris he read a book which intrigued him and he took an interest in antibodies. When he returned to America that book wwas the reason he studied physical chemistry for his phd. He with his colleague Rodney Porter made a breakthrough in the antibody’s chemical structure.

 

Theory of consciousness

Edelman is most famous though for his theory of consciousness. His studies of the immune system helped his theory and using Charles Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection can prove it. He also wants to construct models of brains that function and through interactions can develop it’s mind. His theory is very complex and explains it with the very complicated brain. There are many neurons in a newbors brain and as he/she mature these neurons make connections and those connections make more connections thus resulting in an almost infinite amount.