Title:

Letter from Otto Bier, Instituto Biologico (Brazil) to Michael Heidelberger

Creator:

Bier, Otto
Instituto Biologico

Recipient:

Heidelberger, Michael

Date:

11 September 1944

Description:

In this letter Otto Bier, one of Heidelberger's former postdoctoral students, illustrated how World War II affected scientific research, in this case in Brazil. Bier also reported results of his research on complement, a complex system of over twenty serum proteins that play an essential enzymatic role in host defense mechanisms against invading organisms. Heidelberger became one of the founders of the study of complement when he showed during the 1940s that it was a group of specific chemical substances.

Location:

Box: 1. Folder: 21

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Instituto Biologico, Avenida Conselheiro Rodrigues Alves

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Complement System Proteins and World War II

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

DHBBFJ

NLM ID:

101584940X69

Profiles Collection:

The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X69

Story Section:

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