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Letter from Jacques Loeb to Michael Heidelberger

Title:: Letter from Jacques Loeb to Michael Heidelberger
Creator:: Loeb, Jacques
Recipient:: Heidelberger, Michael
Date:: [1923]
Description:: Here the physiologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) congratulated Heidelberger in his and Avery's discovery that type-specific antigens of pneumococcus bacteria are polysaccharides. Loeb predicted that Avery's and Heidelberger's achievement "may turn immunology into a new and most fertile direction."
Location:: Box: 2. Folder: 2
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: DHBBKQ
NLM ID:: 101584940X155
Profiles Collection:: The Michael Heidelberger Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X155
Story Section:: The Making of an Immunologist: Heidelberger's Years at the Rockefeller Institute, 1912-1927