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Creation Date
1980
Description
Geneticist George Snell (1903-1996) shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset for the discovery of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of the mouse and the first known MHC, key to future tissue and organ transplantation. Snell worked at JAX from 1935 until his retirement in 1973.