Lantern Slide Related to the Work of Dr. Frederick C. Robbins and Colleagues on the Polio Virus - Maitland Type Tissue Cultures
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: Ref: “F. C. Robbins, Virus Researcher, Dies at 86,” New York Times (Aug. 5, 2003), p. B7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge, Harvard University
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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: Polio
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frederick C. Robbins, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0031.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0031
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0031.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lantern slide, polio
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 3 15/16 in x 1/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 9.9822 cm x .3175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 4 in x 1/8 in; 8.255 cm x 10.16 cm x .3175 cm