On Mar. 8, 1984,  two articles describing the cloning of the T-Cell Receptor (TCR) by Tak Wah Mak (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and one by Mark Davis and Stephen Hedrick (Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA) appeared one after another on in Nature.

Within a year, the alpha chain of the TCR was cloned, and the complete structure of the TCR was ultimately revealed