Georges K6hler e o Prêmio Nobel

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Georges K6hler (1 946-1 995) 
Georges K6hler died on 1 March 1995, at the age of 48. Together with Cesar 
Milstein and Niels Jerne, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or 
Medicine in 1984. I first met him when he was a teacher at an EMBO course on 
cell fusion, held in Naples in 1977. He was a quiet and modest man and it was a 
privilege to have been taught by him. The invention of the technique for 
making monoclonal antibodies has had an enormous impact on medicine and 
basic biological science, and has been the catalyst for numerous other discov- 
eries. It will undoubtedly be the key to numerous discoveries in the future. In 
reflecting upon his death at such an early age, we should take solace in the 
knowledge that his place in history is assured.