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Upon receiving the PhD from Harvard, George Snell was employed as a teacher at Brown University, from 1930 to 1931. Snell then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas with H.J. Muller, who pioneered radiation genetics (and was also to win a Nobel Prize).
Jun 6, 1996 · Died: 6 June 1996, Bar Harbor, ME, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”. Prize share: 1/3.
George Davis Snell (born Dec. 19, 1903, Bradford, Mass., U.S.—died June 6, 1996, Bar Harbor, Maine) was an American immunogeneticist who, with Jean Dausset and Baruj Benacerraf, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his studies of histocompatibility.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980 was awarded jointly to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George D. Snell "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
Snell, George Davis. (b. 19 December 1903 in Bradford, Massachusetts; d. 6 June 1996 in Bar Harbor, Maine), immunogeneticist whose pioneering research on the human immune system paved the way for organ transplantation and earned him a Nobel Prize. Snell was the youngest of three children of Cullen Bryant Snell and Katharine Merrill Davis.
Oct 3, 2024 · Early in his career, while at the University of Texas, Snell was the first to show that x-rays can cause mutations in mammals, by his demonstration that x-rays induce chromosome translocations in mice. His main work concerned what he called the major histocompatibility complex.
George D. Snell. 1903-1996. American geneticist whose pioneering research helped decipher the complex genetics of the immune system. His work in defining the genes that determine whether a body accepts or rejects organs paved the way for modern transplants.
