Letter from Florence R. Sabin to Michael Heidelberger

Letter from Florence R. Sabin to Michael Heidelberger

Contributor(s):
Sabin, Florence R.
Heidelberger, Michael
Publication:
Produced: 24 October 1941
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Antigen-Antibody Reactions
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
During the 1930s the anatomist and cell biologist Florence R. Sabin (1871-1953), the first woman to be elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, had investigated how antibodies were formed in response to foreign substances, using a new protein-bound red dye developed by Heidelberger as a tracer antigen. In this letter Sabin congratulated Heidelberger on the "wonderful field of further experimentation your quantitative methods have opened up," and suggested that multivalent antibodies emerge from simpler, univalent ones.
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Extent:
6 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584940X223 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
DHBBNY
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X223
Archival Collection:
The Michael Heidelberger Papers (Profiles in Science)