Michael Heidelberger
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Michael Heidelberger was an American immunologist, often regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to
Photograph of Heidelberger by Harold Low
Elvin A. Kabat
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Elvin Abraham Kabat was an American biomedical scientist and one of the founding fathers of quantitative immunochemistry. Kabat was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1
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…proved were protein and which he measured in absolute units of weight for the first time. He and his collaborators Forrest E. Kendall (1899–1987) and Elvin A. Kabat formulated a quantitative theory of precipitin and other immune reactions, which showed that such reactions unfolded in three distinct stages and which…
Elvin Kabat