Köhler's invention
"Georges Kohler was one of the most prominent German scientists of recent history. In 1984, at the age of 38, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with N.K. Jerne and C. Milstein, for inventing the technique for generating monoclonal antibodies. This method and its su...
| Main Author: | Eichmann, Klaus, 1939- |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Basel ; Boston :
Birkhäuser,
©2005.
Basel ; Boston : [2005] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. A short history of the antibody problem
- Ch. 2. The immunological scene around Kohler
- Ch. 3. Kohler's entry into science
- Ch. 4. The quest for monoclonal antibodies
- Ch. 5. Cell fusion
- Ch. 6. Kohler in Cambridge
- Ch. 7. Back in Basel
- Ch. 8. The patent disaster
- Ch. 9. The Max-Planck-Institute of immunobiology
- Ch. 10. Getting Kohler to Freiburg
- Ch. 11. "Kohler's Max-Planck-Institute"
- Ch. 12. Human relations
- Ch. 13. Post-Nobel science I
- Ch. 14. Post-Nobel science II
- Ch. 15. Kohler's death
- Ch. 16. Magic bullet
- Ch. 17. The antibody problem today
- not quite solved
- App. A. Two lectures given by Georges Kohler to general audiences
- App. B. Prizes and awards to Georges Kohler
- Kohler's complete bibliography.