Georges J. F. Köhler
Georges Jean Franz Köhler ( born April 17, 1946 in Munich, † 1 March 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German biologist and Nobel Prize winners.
After his graduation in Kehl Köhler began in 1965 studying biology at the University of Freiburg, where he graduated in 1971 with a diploma. He then worked at the Basel Institute for Immunology Roche at Fritz Melchers about the enzymology of the immune system. In 1974 he earned his doctorate at the University of Freiburg Dr. rer. nat.
From 1974 to 1976 Koehler was a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council Laboratory in Cambridge (UK) in the group of César Milstein worked. There he discovered the possibility for the formation of monoclonal antibodies from hybridoma cells by cell fusion of B lymphocytes with myeloma cells along with Milstein.
From 1976 to 1984, Köhler worked again at the Institute for Immunology in Basel, before being appointed in 1984 director of the Freiburg-based Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology. In 1984 he became a professor at the University of Freiburg.
1981 Koehler was awarded a Gairdner Foundation International Award. In 1984, he received together with César Milstein and Niels K. Jerne the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and in the same year the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. 1985 Köhler was appointed a member of the Leopoldina.
Georges Köhler died of pneumonia. The road at the Technical Faculty of the University of Freiburg wears his honor the name Georges- Köhler-Allee. The German Society for Immunology awards the Georges Köhler Prize.