Title:

Letter from Elvin A. Kabat to Michael Heidelberger

Creator:

Kabat, Elvin Abraham, 1914-2000

Recipient:

Heidelberger, Michael

Date:

[23 November 1937]

Description:

Kabat, Heidelberger's first graduate student at Columbia, went to the University of Upsala in Sweden in 1937 to use the university's newly-developed ultracentrifuge to type and determine the size of antibody globulins in horse and rabbit antipneumococcal sera, which had been prepared by Heidelberger. In this letter Kabat reported results of his studies, and gave an account of his travels and his meetings with several European colleagues.

Location:

Box: 3. Folder: 19

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Immune Sera, Antibodies, and Molecular Weight

Format:

Text

Extent:

5 pages

Relation:

Letter from Elvin A. Kabat to Michael Heidelberger, 1938

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBJW

NLM ID:

101584940X143

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X143

Story Section:

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