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5 unusual facts about Doniach


Doniach

Deborah Doniach (1912–2004), clinical immunologist and pioneer in the field of autoimmune diseases

Shulamit Doniach (1905–1996), concert pianist, author, and composer

Israel Doniach M.D., F.R.C.P. (1911–2001), pathologist and expert on the causes and diagnosis of thyroid cancers

Nakdimon S. Doniach OBE (1907–1994), lexicographer and scholar of Judaic and Semitic languages

Sebastian Doniach (born 1934), British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University


Autoimmunity

Pioneering work by Noel Rose and Ernst Witebsky in New York, and Roitt and Doniach at University College London provided clear evidence that, at least in terms of antibody-producing B lymphocytes, diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and thyrotoxicosis are associated with loss of immunological tolerance, which is the ability of an individual to ignore "self", while reacting to "non-self".


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