Georges J. F. Köhler

Georges Jean Franz Köhler (Munich, March 17 1946 – March 1 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German biologist.

Together with César Milstein and Niels K. Jerne, Köhler won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984, "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies". A portion of this research was performed at the Basel Institute for Immunology.

In 1984 he became director of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology where he worked until his death.