Niels K. Jerne (born Dec. 23, 1911, London, Eng.—died Oct. 7, 1994, Castillon-du-Gard, France) was a Danish immunologist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with César Milstein and Georges Köhler for his theoretical contributions to the understanding of the immune system.
Jerne was born of Danish parents and grew up in the Netherlands. After studying physics for two years at the University of Leiden, he worked at the Danish State Serum Institute from 1943 to 1956. He received his medical degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1951, and in 1956 he was appointed chief medical officer of the World Health Organization, a position he held until 1962. During the 1960s he taught at the Universities of Geneva…
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