César Milstein
was born on October 8, 1927 in Bahía Blanca and died a March 24, 2002 in Cambridge, England - UK. Argentine
British citizenship, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1984.
In 1945, when he moved to the Capital City to study at the University of Buenos Aires. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences, UBA, 25 years old, and four years later, in 1956, received his doctorate in chemistry and a special award by the Biochemical Society Argentina, won his first doctorate as a cell biologist, for his thesis on enzymes.
was awarded a scholarship by the University of Cambridge where he earned a second doctorate in 1960, working under the direction of molecular biochemist Frederick Sanger.
Milstein returned to Argentina in 1961 to take charge of the Division Molecular Biology of the National Institute of Microbiology, but only spent one year in office to return to England after the military coup of 1962.
While in Cambridge at age 36, he joined the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and worked on the study of immunoglobulins, advancing the understanding of the process by which blood produces antibodies (proteins responsible to combat the presence of foreign bodies or antigens). Together with G. Kohler has developed a technique for creating antibodies with identical chemical structure, which he called monoclonal antibodies.
In 1983, Milstein was appointed chief and director of the Division of Chemistry, Proteins and Nucleic Acids Cambridge University. For his work in developing monoclonal antibodies obtained the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984.
Although he had become hugely rich, Milstein did not register any patent for its award-winning discovery, it was thought that the intellectual property of humanity and as such he bequeathed. According to his convictions, his work lacked economic interest held only scientific interest.
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