A Conversation with Susumu Tonegawa

Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Susumu Tonegawa discusses being a molecular biologist by training, but earning a Nobel Prize for his immunology work discovering the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity.

Introduction by Herman Eisen

Date: 7/15/08

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