George Davis Snell
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George Davis Snell (December 19, 1903 - June 6, 1996), U.S. geneticist; corecipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset, 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.
Snell was born in Bradford, Massachusetts. He made Ph.D. in Harvard in 1930.
Snell died in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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