Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at... Wikipedia
Born: January 14, 1943, Montreal, Canada
Died: September 30, 2011 (age 68 years), Manhattan, New York, NY
Education: Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and McGill University
Notable students: Bruce Beutler, Michel C. Nussenzweig, Ira Mellman, and more