Title:

Letter from Arie C. Van Ravenswaay, United States Army Air Forces to Michael Heidelberger

Creator:

Van Ravenswaay, Arie C.
United States. Army Air Forces

Recipient:

Heidelberger, Michael

Date:

1 June 1944

Description:

During World War II Heidelberger developed a vaccine against pneumococcal pneumonia that was tested among 20,000 trainees at an air base in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The test, in which half the trainees received the vaccine while the other half did not, proved that a vaccine made from a mixture of purified capsular polysaccharides from four different types of pneumococcus was effective against the disease.

Location:

Box: 1. Folder: 10

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Vaccines and Pneumococcal Infections

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBDM

NLM ID:

101584940X51

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X51

Story Section:

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