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Letter from Michael Heidelberger to the Editor of Industrial and Engineering News

Title:: Letter from Michael Heidelberger to the Editor of Industrial and Engineering News
Creator:: Heidelberger, Michael
Recipient:: Industrial and Engineering News
Date:: 7 May 1951
Description:: In this letter Heidelberger forcefully expressed his concern for the freedom of science and of international scientific exchange, which in the early 1950s, at the height of McCarthyism, was threatened by travel restrictions imposed on scientists with leftist or pacifist political leanings.
Location:: Box: 1. Folder: 6
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Subject:: Freedom
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: DHBBDD
NLM ID:: 101584940X45
Profiles Collection:: The Michael Heidelberger Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X45
Story Section:: Antigens and Antibodies: Heidelberger and The Rise of Quantitative Immunochemistry, 1928-1954