Title:

Letter from Michael Heidelberger to his mother, Fannie Camp Heidelberger

Creator:

Heidelberger, Michael

Recipient:

Heidelberger, Fannie Camp

Date:

27 January 1952

Description:

In this letter to his aging mother, Fannie Camp Heidelberger, Michael Heidelberger described his six-week visit to India in early 1952 as a delegate (in place of the ill Linus Pauling) to the Indian Science Congress in Calcutta. While in India Heidelberger had dinner with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, during which the two did not discuss science but U.S. foreign policy. As he reported in his letter, he was also able to realize his "lifelong dream of immunizing an elephant." He injected human gamma globulin into the ear vein of a work elephant, and found that the animal was indeed a good producer of antiserum to the injected globulin.

Location:

Box: 2. Folder: 3

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBKT

NLM ID:

101584940X158

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X158

Story Section:

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