Title:

Letter from Michael Heidelberger to Edward Mellanby, Medical Research Council of Great Britain

Creator:

Heidelberger, Michael

Recipient:

Mellanby, Edward and Medical Research Council (Great Britain)

Date:

15 September 1947

Description:

In this letter, Heidelberger declined the informal offer of the directorship of an immunological research institute the Medical Research Council was establishing outside London. The offer by the Council, the main public sponsor of biomedical research in the United Kingdom, was an expression of the high esteem accorded Heidelberger by his scientific colleagues.

Location:

Box: 4. Folder: 4

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Career Mobility

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Edward Mellanby, Medical Research Council of Great Britain to Michael Heidelberger, 1947

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBMV

NLM ID:

101584940X200

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X200

Story Section:

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