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Michael Heidelberger

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Gender Male
Death33 years ago
Date of birth April 29,1888
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born New York
United States
Date of died June 25,1991
DiedNew York
New York
United States
Doctoral advisorMarston T. Bogert
Fields Organic chemistry
Immunology
Job Chemist
Education Columbia University
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
BooksNature from Within: Gustav Theodor Fechner and His Psychophysical Worldview
An Advanced Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry
Lectures in Immunochemistry
Immunochemical Approaches to Problems in Microbiology: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, September 6-8, 1960
Awards Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Doctor advisorMarston T. Bogert
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Michael Heidelberger ForMemRS 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 show that antibodies are proteins.

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