Edelman

[ed-l-muhn]

noun

1. Gerald Maurice, 1929–2014, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1972.

Edelman

/ ˈɛdəlmən /

noun

1. Gerald Maurice. born 1929, US biochemist: he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1972) with Rodney Porter for determining the structure of antibodies

Edelman

1. American biochemist who shared with Rodney Porter the 1972 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for their research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies.

Example Sentences

To better understand Harper, she read Hope Edelman’s “Motherless Daughters” and now sees her character as being “in a constant state of dissociation, having lost her mom and immediately assuming the role of caretaker in the family. She covers up with armor and if joy creeps through, she smacks it away.”

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But it paved the way for the proliferation of mammals, including Homo sapiens—and for the new Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University, with its bountiful fossil beds and arresting dinosaur displays.

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Less than a half-hour from Philadelphia, the Edelman, which opened March 29, takes full advantage of its site, once a sea teeming with marine creatures and, more recently, a glauconite quarry.

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Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, Edelman’s founding executive director, says the location is unique in the quantity of fossils embedded in fallout from the asteroid.

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Rowan alumni Jean and Ric Edelman contributed $25 million.

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