I missed this in the moment... Susumu Tonegawa has died. While his later work was in the neuroscience of learning and memory, the staggering elegance of his demonstration of DNA rearrangement in antibody development is amazing. Obituary here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Obituary: Susumu Tonegawa, Japan’s first Nobel prizewinner in physiology or medicineFearless molecular biologist who revealed the workings of antibodies and memories.www.nature.com