List of immunologists

Pioneers

Edward Jenner (1749-1823), discovered that cowpox induces protection against smallpox

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), his experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, he also created the first vaccine for rabies

Nobel laureates

1901 Emil Adolf von Behring (1854-1917), "for his serum therapy to treat diphtheria" (First ever Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)

1908 Eli Metchnikoff (1845-1916) and Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), "for study of the immune system"

1919 Jules Bordet (1870-1961), "for discovery of the complement system in the immune system"

1930 Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), "for discovery of human blood types"

1960 Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987) and Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985), "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"

1972 Gerald Maurice Edelman (1929-) and Rodney Robert Porter (1917-1985), "for discovering the chemical structure of antibodies"

1980 Baruj Benacerraf (1920-2011), Jean Dausset (1916-2009) and George Davis Snell (1903-1996), "for discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self"

1984 Niels Jerne (1911-1994), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946-1995) and César Milstein (1927-2002) "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies"

1987 Susumu Tonegawa (1939-), "for discovering how the large diversity of antibodies is produced genetically"

1989 J. Michael Bishop (1936-) and Harold E. Varmus (1939-), "for discovering the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes"

1996 Peter C. Doherty (1940-) and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944-) "for describing how MHC molecules are used by white blood cells to detect and kill virus-infected cells."

2011 Bruce Beutler(1957-), Jules A. Hoffmann (1941-) " for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and Ralph Marvin Steinman (1943-2011)"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"

Notable immunologists

Alan Aderem, innate immunity

Lorne Babiuk

Kiril Bratanov (1911-1986), pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction

William Coley (1862-1936), pioneer of cancer immunotherapy

Albert Coons (1912–1978), developed immunofluorescent techniques for labelling antibodies

Deborah Doniach, organ-specific auto-immunity

Eva Engvall, one of the scientists who invented ELISA in 1971.

Denise Faustman, Type 1 diabetes

William Frankland, popularisation of the UK pollen count, and prediction of increased penicillin allergy

Ian Frazer, development of a cervical cancer vaccine

Samuel O. Freedman, discovered Carcinoembryonic antigen

Jules T. Freund (1890-1960)

Sankar Ghosh

John Grange

Waldemar Haffkine (1860-1930), first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague.

Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991), showed that antibodies are proteins

Leonard Herzenberg

Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)

Charles Janeway (1943-2003), wrote the standard textbook Immunobiology

Dermot Kelleher

Tadamitsu Kishimoto

Jan Klein, Mhc

Mary Loveless (1899–1991), insect venom allergy

Tak Wah Mak, discovery of the T-cell receptor

Polly Matzinger, immunological tolerance, Danger Model, Hyppo Model

Ira Mellman

Jacques Miller

Avrion Mitchison

Michael Neuberger

Alan Munro

Gustav Nossal

Santa J. Ono

Nicholas P. Restifo

Fred Rosen (1930-2005), discovered the cause of X-linked hyper IgM syndrome.

Richard R. Rosenthal

Louis W. Sauer (1885-1980), perfected pertussis vaccine, developed diphtheria/p daertussis/tetanus vaccine

Emil Skamene

David Talmage clonal selection theory

Reyes Tamez

Kevin J. Tracey

Jan Vilcek

Ellen Vitetta

Alexander S. Wiener (1907-1976)

Don Wiley (1944-2001), crystallography of HLA proteins

Ian Wilson (biologist)

Ernst Witebsky (1901-1969), isolation and partial characterization of A and B blood antigens

Jian Zhou (1957-1999), with co-inventor Ian Frazer has priority for invention of Virus-like particle and HPV vaccine

Ivan Roitt

James S. Tan (1927-2006)

Mike Belosevic

Shimon Sakaguchi, discovery of regulatory T cells

Alberto Mantovani

Rajiv Krishna Saxena, inventor of double in-vivo biotinylation (DIB) technique

Immunologists in popular culture

Dr. Allison Cameron, a character on the television series House M.D.