Title:

Letter from A. D. Hershey to Michael Heidelberger

Creator:

Washington University (Saint-Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine
Hershey, A. D. (Alfred Day), 1908-

Recipient:

Heidelberger, Michael

Date:

1 May 1941

Description:

In this letter Hershey replied to Heidelberger's critical comments regarding Hershey's efforts to use bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, to study the kinetics--the rate and mechanisms--of immune reactions. Hershey also discussed emerging conceptions of antibody heterogeneity, the idea that the multiple chemical bonds established by multivalent antibodies with two or more antigens are formed at different rates.

Location:

Box: 3. Folder: 3

Rights:

Courtesy of Michael Heidelberger.

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Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Antigen-Antibody Reactions, Bacteriophages, and Kinetics

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from A. D. Hershey to Michael Heidelberger, 1941
Letter from Michael Heidelberger to A. D. Hershey, 1941

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBJL

NLM ID:

101584940X134

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X134

Story Section:

Antigens and Antibodies: Heidelberger and The Rise of Quantitative Immunochemistry, 1928-1954