Title:

Letter from Florence R. Sabin to Michael Heidelberger

Creator:

Sabin, Florence R.

Recipient:

Heidelberger, Michael

Date:

24 October 1941

Description:

During the 1930s the anatomist and cell biologist Florence R. Sabin (1871-1953), the first woman to be elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, had investigated how antibodies were formed in response to foreign substances, using a new protein-bound red dye developed by Heidelberger as a tracer antigen. In this letter Sabin congratulated Heidelberger on the "wonderful field of further experimentation your quantitative methods have opened up," and suggested that multivalent antibodies emerge from simpler, univalent ones.

Location:

Box: 5. Folder: 14

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Geraldine F. Swan.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Antigen-Antibody Reactions

Format:

Text

Extent:

6 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBNY

NLM ID:

101584940X223

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X223

Story Section:

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