Roberto Poljak
Roberto Juan Poljak (born September 17, 1932 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine biophysicist and immunologist.
Poljak studied at the Colegio Nacional de Quilmas with a bachelor's degree in 1949, at the University of Buenos Aires (Facultad de Ciencias Naturales) with a master's degree in 1954 and received his doctorate in 1956 at the University of La Plata . From 1958 to 1960 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1960 to 1962 at the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory. He was then a professor at Johns Hopkins University (from 1972 with full professorship for biophysics). From 1981 he was a professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, head of the laboratory for structural immunology, finally from 1992 professor at the University of Maryland and director of the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology in Rockville.
In the 1970s, he was the first to determine the three-dimensional structure of an antibody. In 1986 at the Pasteur Institute, he and colleagues clarified the three-dimensional structure of the contact point between antibodies and antigens.
From 1986 he was also an honorary professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
In 1989 he received the Louis Jeantet Prize .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ AG Amit, RA Mariuzza, SE Phillips, RJ Poljak, Three-dimensional structure of an antigen-antibody complex at 2.8 A resolution. Science, Vol. 233, 1986, pp. 747-753, PMID 2426778
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Poljak, Roberto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juan Poljak, Roberto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine biophysicist and immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |