George D. Snell
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George D. Snell Net Worth

George D. Snell was an American geneticist and joint recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was an expert in mouse genetics and transplant immunology and was known as the 'father of immunogenetics'. He earned his doctorate degree in genetics from Harvard University and went on to teach at Brown University and Washington State University in St. Louis. He joined the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor in 1935 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980 for his discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions. He authored several books and founded the scientific journal 'Immunogenetics'.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Geneticist
Birth Day December 19, 1903
Birth Place December 19, 1903, Bradford, Massachusetts, United States, United States
Age 117 YEARS OLD
Died On June 6, 1996(1996-06-06) (aged 92)\nBar Harbor, Maine
Birth Sign Capricorn
Alma mater Dartmouth College (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Awards 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Fields genetics immunologist

💰 Net worth

George D. Snell, an eminent geneticist based in the United States, is projected to have a net worth estimated between $100,000 to $1 million by 2024. With his remarkable contributions in the field of genetics, Snell has garnered significant recognition and financial success throughout his career. With an illustrious background, Snell's net worth reflects both his accomplishments and the lucrative nature of his expertise in genetics. His work has undoubtedly made a profound impact on our understanding of genetics and its applications, solidifying his position as a renowned figure in the scientific community.

Biography/Timeline

1926

George Snell was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children. His father (who was born in Minnesota), worked as a secretary for the local YMCA; he invented a device for winding induction coils for motorboat engines. Snell was educated in the Brookline, Massachusetts schools and then enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where he continued his passion for mathematics and science, focusing on genetics. He received his Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1926.

1929

This experience "served to convince me that research was my real love," Snell wrote in his autobiography.[2]"If it were to be research, mouse genetics was the clear choice and the Jackson Laboratory, founded in 1929 by Dr. Clarence Cook Little, one of Castle's earlier students, almost the inevitable selection as a place to work." The Jackson Laboratory was (and still is) the world's mecca for mouse genetics.

1930

Upon receiving the Ph.D from Harvard, George Snell was employed as a Teacher at Brown University, from 1930~1931.

1935

After brief stints as teachers, in 1935 Snell joined the staff of The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor on beautiful Mount Desert Island by the coast of Maine and he remained there for the entire balance of his long career. In Bar Harbor, he met and married Rhoda Carson. Together they had three sons, Thomas, Roy, and Peter. In his leisure time, Snell enjoyed skiing, a passion he developed during his years at Dartmouth, as well as tennis.

1978

Snell received the Cancer Research Institute william B. Coley Award in 1978 for distinguished research in immunology. In 1988, he authored a substantial book, Search for a Rational Ethic, on the nature of ethics and the rules by which we live. It includes an evolution-based ethic founded on biological realities that he believed to be applicable to all human beings.

1980

George Snell shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset for their discoveries concerning "genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions". Snell specifically "discovered the genetic factors that determine the possibilities of transplanting tissue from one individual to another. It was Snell who introduced the concept of H antigens."[1] Snell's work in mice led to the discovery of HLA, the major histocompatibility complex, in humans (and all vertebrates) that is analogous to the H-2 complex in mice. Recognition of these key genes was prerequisite to successful tissue and organ transplantation.

1996

Snell died in Bar Harbor, Maine on June 6, 1996. His wife died in 1994.

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