Gerald M. Edelman

Gerald M. Edelman (1929-2014) was a professor of Biochemistry at Rockefeller University and of Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972 for his discovery of the molecular structure of antibodies. In the last decades of his life, he studied the neurobiological foundations of consciousness and published several books, including "Neural Darwinism" (1987), "Topobiology" (1988), "Remembered Present" (1989), "Bright Air, Brilliant Fire" (1992), "A Universe of Consciousness" (2000), and "Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness" (2004).