César Milstein

César Milstein (1927-2002), Argentine-born British immunologist and Nobel laureate, who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler), for his development, with Köhler, of monoclonal antibody technology. He was born in Bahía Blanca and attended the universities of Buenos Aires and Cambridge. His work is now of basic importance in a wide range of biological and medical research. He and Köhler conducted their studies at the British Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge; Milstein remained associated with that university. See also Genetic Engineering.