# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niels-kaj-jerne
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:14:16.204Z

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name: "Niels Kaj Jerne"
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description: "Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS was a Danish immunologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Georges J. F. Köhler and César Milstein \"for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies\"."
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birthDate: "1911-12-23"
deathDate: "1994-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump