the staff of The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island on the coast of Maine and he remained there for the entire balance of his long career. In Bar Harbor, he met and married Rhoda Carson. Together they had three sons, Thomas, Roy, and Peter. In his leisure time, Snell enjoyed skiing, a passion he developed during his years at Dartmouth, as well as tennis. Snell received the Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award in 1978 for distinguished research in immunology. In 1988, he authored a substantial book, Search for a Rational Ethic, on the nature of ethics and the rules by which we live. It includes an evolution-based ethic founded on biological realities that he believed to be applicable to all human beings. Snell died in Bar Harbor on June 6, 1996. His wife died in 1994. Awards and honors 1935-68 The Jackson Laboratory, staff scientist 1952 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1955 Hekteon Medal of American Medical Association 1962 Griffen Animal Care Panel Award 1962 Bertner Foundation Award 1967 Gregor Mendel Medal, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences 1968-96 The Jackson Laboratory, senior staff scientist emeritus 1970 Elected to National Academy of Sciences 1976 Gairdner Foundation International Award 1978 National Cancer Institute Award 1978 Elected to British Transplantation Society, honorary 1978 Wolf Prize in Medicine 1979 Elected to French Academy of Sciences, foreign associate 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981 Founding member of the World Cultural Council 1982 Elected to American Philosophical Society 1982 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 1983 Elected to British Society of Immunology, honorary See also C.C. Little Peter Alfred Gorer Leroy Stevens References External links including the Nobel Lecture Studies in Histocompatibility American geneticists American Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates Founding members of the World Cultural Council American immunologists Dartmouth College alumni Harvard University alumni People from Bradford, Massachusetts 1903 births 1996 deaths People from Bar Harbor, Maine Nobel laureates affiliated with Missouri Brown University faculty Washington University in St. Louis faculty Washington University School of Medicine faculty