List of immunologists
This is a list of notable immunologists. == Pioneers == Edward Jenner (1749-1823), discovered that cowpox induces protection against smallpox Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), his experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, he also created the first vaccine for rabies == Nobel laureates == 1901 Emil Adolf von Behring (1854-1917), "for his serum therapy to treat diphtheria" (First ever Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) 1908 Eli Metchnikoff (1845-1916) and Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), "for study of the immune system" 1919 Jules Bordet (1870-1961), "for discovery of the complement system in the immune system" 1930 Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), "for discovery of human blood types" 1960 Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987) and Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985), "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self" 1972 Gerald Maurice Edelman (1929-2014) and Rodney Robert Porter (1917-1985), "for discovering the chemical structure of antibodies" 1980 Baruj Benacerraf (1920-2011), Jean Dausset (1916-2009) and George Davis Snell (1903-1996), "for discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self" 1984 Niels Jerne (1911-1994), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946-1995) and César Milstein (1927-2002), "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies" 1987 Susumu Tonegawa (1939-), "for discovering how the large diversity of antibodies is produced genetically" 1989 J. Michael Bishop (1936-2026) and Harold E. Varmus (1939-), "for discovering the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes" 1996 Peter C. Doherty (1940-) and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944-), "for describing how MHC molecules are used by white blood cells to detect and kill virus-infected cells." 2011 Bruce Beutler (1957-), Jules A. Hoffmann (1941-), "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and Ralph Marvin Steinman (1943-2011)"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity" 2018 James P. Allison (1948-) and Tasuku Honjo (1942-), "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation." == Notable immunologists == Vital Brazil (1865–1950) Alan Aderem, innate immunity Akiko Iwasaki (1970-) Lorne Babiuk (1946-) Mike Belosevic (1951-) Kiril Bratanov (1911-1986), pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction William Coley (1862-1936), pioneer of cancer immunotherapy Albert Coons (1912-1978), developed immunofluorescent techniques for labelling antibodies Max D. Cooper (1933-), identification of T and B cells Yehuda Danon (1940-) Deborah Doniach (1912-2004), organ-specific auto-immunity Eva Engvall (1940-), one of the scientists who invented ELISA in 1971.