Heidelberger, Michael

Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991) is known as one of the founders of quantitative immunochemistry, and in the course of his career studied, among others, bacterial polysaccharides (particularly pneumococcal), as well as the immunochemistry of proteins, antibodies, and antigens. The papers deal primarily with Heidelberger's career as a teacher, researcher, and active member of the scientific community.

Contains personal and general correspondence, and material relating to associations, conferences, congresses, and institutes. Among the organizations represented are he American Association of Immunologists, American Chemical Society Conference on unochemistry, Institute of Microbiology, International Congress for Microbiology, ional Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, New York Academy of es, New York City Public Health Research Institute, and World Health on.