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Ralph Steinman
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Person

Ralph Steinman

1943 – 2011 · aged 68

Canadian immunologist and cell biologist (1943–2011)

Born
14 Jan 1943 · Montreal
Died
30 Sept 2011 · Manhattan
Part ofCanada1690 – todayJudaism74 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 78 years
  1. 14 Jan 1943BornBorn in Montreal
  2. 1996AwardEmil-von-Behring-Prize
  3. 1998AwardMax Planck Research Award
  4. 1998AwardWilliam B. Coley Award
  5. 1999AwardHonorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  6. 1999AwardRobert Koch Prize
  7. 2003AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  8. 2004AwardNovartis Prize for Basic Immunology
  9. 2006AwardDebrecen Award for Molecular Medicine
  10. 2007AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  11. 2009AwardAlbany Medical Center Prize
  12. 2010AwardClarivate Citation Laureates
  13. 2010AwardDr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine
  14. 30 Sept 2011DiedDied in Manhattan

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1943 – 2011).

  1. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  2. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  3. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  5. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  6. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  7. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  8. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  9. 1956Suez Crisis
  10. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  12. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  14. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  16. 1968Prague Spring
  17. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  18. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  19. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  20. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  22. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  23. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  24. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  25. 1985Schengen Agreement
  26. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  27. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  28. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  30. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  32. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  33. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  34. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  35. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  36. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  37. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  38. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  39. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  40. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring

Biography

Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. Steinman was one of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Text from the Wikipedia article Ralph M. Steinman, CC BY-SA 4.0

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