Susumu Tonegawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Susumu Tonegawa

Japanese biologist

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1939

Place of Birth: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Profession: scientist, physician, professor, chemist, researcher, geneticist, neuroscientist, immunologist, molecular biologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Susumu Tonegawa (??? ? Tonegawa Susumu, born September 5, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987, for his discovery of the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity.
Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa is a molecular biologist by training and he again changed fields following his Nobel Prize win; he now studies neuroscience, examining the molecular, cellular and neuronal basis of memory formation and retrieval.