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Michael Heidelberger

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1921 In 1921 Heidelberger transferred to the laboratory of Donald D. Van Slyke at the Rockefeller hospital, where he spent the next two years developing a method for preparing large quantities of purified oxyhemoglobin, with its oxygen-carrying...
1922 When Karl Landsteiner, the famous Austrian immunologist and discoverer of human blood groups, arrived at the institute in 1922, Heidelberger embarked with him on studies of the antigenic properties of different types of hemoglobin.
1930s-1940s The idea of using polysaccharides as immunogens was an outgrowth of work on pneumococci performed at the Rockefeller Institute by Drs. Michael Heidelberger, Oswald Avery, and Colin MacLeod in the 1930s and early 1940s.46
During this time Heidelberger was approached by the bacteriologist Oswald Avery to help him elucidate the chemistry of the "specific soluble substance" Avery and Alphonse R. Dochez had found in the spherical capsule that envelops pneumococcus and many othe