Set of Photographs Documenting the Work of Dr. Maurice Hilleman and Colleagues on Interferon
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960s - 1970s
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A set of 18 photographic prints documenting the work of Dr. Maurice Hilleman and his colleagues on interferon. Hilleman's team figured out how to purify and mass-produce the antiviral agent, and described its properties and potential uses as a therapeutic. Interferon is used to treat chronic infections, as well as cancers. Photographs depict Dr. Alfred A. Tytell, George P. Lampson, Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, Dr. Marjorie M. Nemes, and Dr. A. Kirk Field. Several of the photographs are duplicates, and several have handwritten notations on their backs.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, West Point
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Hilleman Family: Lorraine W. Hilleman, Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, and Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3081.12
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content: 2017.3081.12
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content: 2017.3081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photographs, interferon research
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, each photograph: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm