Object Details
- Description
- One of twelve slides from Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916-2003), a physician who received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The slides, which date from c. 1948, relate to the work that Dr. Robbins and his colleagues did with the polio virus. They were the first to successfully grow the virus in tissue culture.
- Ref: “F. C. Robbins, Virus Researcher, Dies at 86,” New York Times (Aug. 5, 2003), p. B7.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frederick C. Robbins, M.D.
- ca 1948
- ID Number
- 2003.0031.01
- accession number
- 2003.0031
- catalog number
- 2003.0031.01
- Object Name
- lantern slide, polio
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/8 in x 3 15/16 in x 1/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 9.9822 cm x .3175 cm
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 4 in x 1/8 in; 8.255 cm x 10.16 cm x .3175 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge, Harvard University
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Polio
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1253851
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-5747-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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