Title:

Letter from Michael Heidelberger to Walter W. Palmer, Public Health Research Institute

Creator:

Heidelberger, Michael

Recipient:

The Public Health Research Institute and Palmer, Walter W.

Date:

24 September 1947

Description:

At the behest of Walter W. Palmer, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in which Heidelberger served as chemist, Heidelberger in this letter summarized his more than three decades of research in chemotherapy, polysaccharide chemistry, and immunochemistry. Heidelberger had met Palmer in Donald D. Van Slyke's laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute during the early 1920s, and it was Palmer who offered Heidelberger a professorship as Chemist to the Medical Service of the Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia's teaching hospital, in 1928.

Location:

Box: 1. Folder: 4

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Oxyhemoglobins and Immunochemistry

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBDB

NLM ID:

101584940X43

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X43

Story Section:

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