This is a list of notable immunologists.

Pioneers

• Edward Jenner (1749-1823), discovered that cowpox induces protection against smallpox

• Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), his experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, he also created the first vaccine for rabies

Nobel laureates

• 1901 Emil Adolf von Behring (1854-1917), "for his serum therapy to treat diphtheria" (First ever Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)

• 1908 Eli Metchnikoff (1845-1916) and Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), "for study of the immune system"

• 1919 Jules Bordet (1870-1961), "for discovery of the complement system in the immune system"

• 1930 Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), "for discovery of human blood types"

• 1960 Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987) and Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985), "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"

• 1972 Gerald Maurice Edelman (1929-2014) and Rodney Robert Porter (1917-1985), "for discovering the chemical structure of antibodies"

• 1980 Baruj Benacerraf (1920-2011), Jean Dausset (1916-2009) and George Davis Snell (1903-1996), "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"

• 1984 Niels Jerne (1911-1994), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946-1995) and César Milstein (1927-2002), "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies"

• 1987 Susumu Tonegawa (1939–2026), "for discovering how the large diversity of antibodies is produced genetically"

• 1989 J. Michael Bishop (1936-2026) and Harold E. Varmus (1939-), "for discovering the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes"

• 1996 Peter C. Doherty (1940-) and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944-), "for describing how MHC molecules are used by white blood cells to detect and kill virus-infected cells."

• 2011 Bruce Beutler (1957-), Jules A. Hoffmann (1941-), "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and Ralph Marvin Steinman (1943-2011)"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"

• 2018 James P. Allison (1948-) and Tasuku Honjo (1942-), "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation."

Notable immunologists

• Vital Brazil (1865–1950)

• Alan Aderem, innate immunity

• Akiko Iwasaki (1970-)

• Lorne Babiuk (1946-)

• Mike Belosevic (1951-)

• Kiril Bratanov (1911-1986), pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction

• William Coley (1862-1936), pioneer of cancer immunotherapy

• Albert Coons (1912-1978), developed immunofluorescent techniques for labelling antibodies

• Max D. Cooper (1933-), identification of T and B cells

• Yehuda Danon (1940-)

• Deborah Doniach (1912-2004), organ-specific auto-immunity

• Eva Engvall (1940-), one of the scientists who invented ELISA in 1971.

• Anthony Fauci (1940-)

• Denise Faustman (1958-), Type 1 diabetes

• Daniela M. Ferreira, bacterial and respiratory infection

• William Frankland (1912-2020), popularisation of the UK pollen count, and prediction of increased penicillin allergy

• Ian Frazer (1953-), development of a cervical cancer vaccine

• Samuel O. Freedman (1928-), discovered Carcinoembryonic antigen

• Jules T. Freund (1890-1960)

• Sankar Ghosh

• John Grange (1943-2016)

• Waldemar Haffkine (1860-1930), first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague.

• Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991), showed that antibodies are proteins

• George Heist (1886-1920)

• Leonard Herzenberg (1931-2013)

• Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)

• Charles Janeway (1943-2003), wrote the standard textbook Immunobiology

• Dermot Kelleher

• Tadamitsu Kishimoto (1939-)

• Jan Klein (1936-), Mhc

• Mary Loveless (1899-1991), insect venom allergy

• Tak Wah Mak (1946-), discovery of the T-cell receptor

• Alberto Mantovani

• Polly Matzinger (1947-), immunological tolerance, Danger Model, Hyppo Model

• Michelle McMurry-Heath, immunologist

• Ira Mellman

• Jacques Miller (1931-)

• Avrion Mitchison (1928-)

• Michael Neuberger (1953-2013)

• Evelyn Nicol (1930-2020)

• Alan Munro (1937-)

• Gustav Nossal (1931-)

• Santa J. Ono (1962-)

• Thomas Platts-Mills (1941-), discovered dust-mite allergen and alpha-gal allergy from tick bites

• Nicholas P. Restifo (1960-)

• Ivan Roitt (1927-)

• Jon van Rood (1926-2017), pioneer in the field of HLA and immunogenetics of transplantation, the founder of the international organ exchange organization Eurotransplant

• Mario Rosemblatt (1941-), who established that dendritic cells are responsible for imprinting the tissue-specific homing of T lymphocytes

• Fred Rosen (1930-2005), discovered the cause of X-linked hyper IgM syndrome

• Christopher E. Rudd (1963-), discovery of T-cell activation mechanisms via tyrosine kinases

• Shimon Sakaguchi (1948-), discovery of regulatory T cells

• Louis W. Sauer (1885-1980), perfected pertussis vaccine, developed diphtheria/p daertussis/tetanus vaccine

• Emil Skamene (1941-)

• Filip Swirski, professor, researcher and scientist, known for novel findings in Linking atherosclerosis with blood monocytosis (1974-)

• David Talmage (1919-2014), clonal selection theory

• James S. Tan (1927-2006)

• Reyes Tamez (1952-)

• Kevin J. Tracey (1957-)

• Jan Vilcek (1933-)

• Ellen Vitetta

• Alexander S. Wiener (1907-1976)

• Don Wiley (1944-2001), crystallography of HLA proteins

• Ian Wilson (biologist)

• Ernst Witebsky (1901-1969), isolation and partial characterization of A and B blood antigens

• Jian Zhou (1957-1999), with co-inventor Ian Frazer has priority for invention of Virus-like particle and HPV vaccine

Immunologists in popular culture

• Allison Cameron, character on the television series House M.D.

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