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Letter from Linus Pauling to Michael Heidelberger

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Identifier: 101584940X210
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Dates

  • Creation: 21 June 1940

Extent

1 pages

Description

In this letter Linus Pauling, the world's preeminent physical chemist at the time, asked Heidelberger to comment on a hypothesis regarding the chemical structure of antibodies and the location of the sites at which they bind to antigens Pauling had developed. Pauling's article was published as "A Theory of the Structure and Process of Formation of Antibodies" in the Journal of the American Chemical Society 62 (1940), pp. 2643-2657.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Original Profiles System Identifier

DHBBNH

Relation Category

UI (NLM)

DHBBNK

UI (NLM)

DHBBNJ

UI (NLM)

MMBBNJ

Physical Description

Physical Condition - Good

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