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Letter from Linus Pauling to Michael Heidelberger

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Identifier: 101584940X212
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Dates

  • Creation: 3 April 1940

Extent

1 pages

Description

In this letter Linus Pauling, the world's preeminent physical chemist at the time, suggested a meeting with Heidelberger to discuss Pauling's ideas about the chemical structure of antibodies and the location of the sites at which they bind to antigens Pauling had developed. His hypothesis 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

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DHBBNK

Relation Category

UI (NLM)

DHBBNH

UI (NLM)

DHBBNJ

UI (NLM)

MMBBNJ

Physical Description

Physical Condition - Good

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