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George Davis Snell (December 19, 1903 - June 6, 1996), U.S. geneticist; corecipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset, for discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self.

Snell was born in Bradford, Massachusetts. He made Ph.D. in Harvard in 1930.

Snell died in Bar Harbor, Maine.

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Snell, George Davis (185 words)
	Snell graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926 and received a doctor of science degree from Harvard University in 1930.
	Snell's studies of histocompatibility in mice resulted in the identification of the H-2 gene complex and subsequently to the recognition of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), an assortment of antigens (substances that cause the production of antibodies) that is common to the genetic makeup of all vertebrates.
	Snell was coauthor of Histocompatibility with Dausset and Stanley Nathenson in 1976.

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