Georges Jean Franz Köhler:
Georges Jean Franz Köhler was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 17, 1946 in Munich, Germany
Death:
March 1, 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Köhler was a German biochemist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Niels Jerne and César Milstein for the discovery of the production method to create monoclonal antibodies. Together with Milstein, he developed the hybridoma technique to produce monoclonal antibodies. They fused antibody producing B-lymphocyte cells with tumor cells to produce a hybridoma that continuously produced antibodies. This technique is used in the commercial development of diagnostic tests and new drugs.
