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Article: Nobel Prize-Winning Biologist George Snell Dies at Age 92
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- The Washington Post
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- June 8, 1996
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George Snell, 92, the Nobel Prize-winning New England biologist who
helped lay the groundwork for modern organ transplantation, died
June 6 at his home in Bar Harbor, Maine.
The Jackson Laboratory, in Bar Harbor, announced his death but
did not report its cause. The lab is the site where Dr. Snell
carried out his pioneering genetics research from 1935 to 1973 and
won recognition as the father of immunogenetics.
In living creatures, the immune system may jeopardize an organ
transplant by attacking the foreign tissue in much the same way as
it would neutralize harmful microorganisms that invade the body.
Dr. Snell's work in connecting the genetic inheritance of
living creatures with ...