On October 8, 1927, Cesar Milstein Vapñasrsky was born in the town of Bahía Blanca, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He was the son of Lázaro Milstein and Máxima Vapñasrsky. He began his studies in the city of Buenos Aires, and very soon he began to stand out in school for his great intelligence.
At the age of 13, he began to read books on chemistry, being his first copy, which influenced him a lot, “The microbe hunters”By Paul de Kruit.
He began to pursue his higher studies at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in Chemical Sciences, when he was only 25 years old.
In 1953, he married Celia Prilletensky.
In the 1960s, he moved to England, where he gets a scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge.
César returned to Argentina, where he was going to start working at the Molecular Biology Laboratory, but he had to return to England due to the coup in 1962.
In England he begins to carry out studies on immunoglobins. It is when it joins G. Kólher, to develop antibodies, which would be called monoclonal antibodies.
In the 80s, Cesar is appointed Head of the Chemistry Division at the University of Cambridge.
In 1984, Milstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for the studies and developments carried out on monoclonal antibodies. This discovery was never patented by Milstein, who argued that it was an intellectual value that belonged to Humanity, and that he carried out his research for scientific and not economic interest.
In 1987 Milstein was awarded the Honoris Causa Title in his hometown of Bahía Blanca.
In 1993, he obtained the Konex Award for his scientific studies carried out in recent years.
At the end of the millennium, specifically on December 15, 1999, César gives a lecture at the University of Buenos Aires, with the title of “Curiosity as a source of wealth”..
On March 24, 2002, César Milstein died in Cambridge due to a heart condition..