Michael Sela

Michael Sela
Michael Sela
מיכאל סלע
	Michael Sela
Born	Mieczysław Salomonowicz; 2 March 1924; Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland
Died	27 May 2022 (aged 98); Rehovot, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation	immunologist
Known for	Research in immunology; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science;
Title	W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Awards	The Israel Prize in Life Sciences (1959); Germany's Otto Warburg Medal (1968); The Rothschild Prize (1968); Canada's Gairdner Foundation International Award (1980); Germany's Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit Award (1986); France's Officier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur (1987); Interbrew-Baillet Latour Health Prize of Belgium (1997); The Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998);

Michael Sela (Hebrew: מיכאל סלע; Mieczysław Salomonowicz; 2 March 1924 – 27 May 2022) was an Israeli immunologist of Polish Jewish origin. He was the W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.^[1] He was a president of the Weizmann Institute of Science.^[2]