He subsequently worked with colleagues Kenneth BM Reid, Robert Sim and Duncan Campbell on developing understanding of the Complement Proteins associated with defence against infection.
1972: Dr. Gerald Edelman '50, wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system, becoming the college's first Nobel laureate.
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Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure of antibodies, Whitley Professor of Biochemistry from 1967-85 at the University of Oxford