Letter from Percival Hartley, Medical Research Council of Great Britain to Michael Heidelberger
Description:
In this letter, the biochemist and immunologist Percival Hartley lamented the coming of World War II and discussed his efforts to keep the National Institute of Medical Research in operation at a time when the requirements of the military for scientific and medical resources affected researchers in many fields. "I live in this daily stress of preparing for war; there is no respite," Hartley wrote.
Item is handwritten.
Number of Image Pages:
4 (232,653 Bytes)
Date:
1939-07-27 (July 27, 1939)
Creator:
Hartley, Percival
Medical Research Council of Great Britain
Recipient:
Heidelberger, Michael
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Courtesy of Michael Heidelberger.
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Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
World War II
Exhibit Category:
Antigens and Antibodies: Heidelberger and The Rise of Quantitative Immunochemistry, 1928-1954
