Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa (??? ? Tonegawa Susumu, born September 6, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for "his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity." Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa is a molecular biologist by training. In his later years, he has turned his attention to the molecular and cellular basis of memory formation.

External links

• Nobel Prize Biography
• Tonegawa's bio at MIT
• Tonegawa's research at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
• his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity