Centrifuge
name: label: maker
content: Sorvall, Ivan
notes: label: Description
content: Ivan Sorvall (ca. 1897-1952) was born in Stockholm, moved to the U.S. in 1922, and began importing Swedish merchandise. In 1930 he organized Ivan Sorvall, Inc., in Norwalk, Conn., manufacturers of centrifuges and other laboratory equipment. The trademark of the firm was “Servall.”
label: Description
content: Dr. Marshall Nirenberg, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his work on "cracking the genetic code," used this Servall centrifuge in his lab at NIH.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Ivan Sorvall,” <i>New York Times</i> (Nov. 11, 1952), p. 29.
label: Description
content: Ivan Sorvall ad in <i>Science</i> 144 (April 3, 1964).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, via Dr. Alan Peterkofsky
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0435.01
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0435.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0435
objectType: label: Object Name
content: centrifuge
label: Object Name
content: ultracentrifuge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: crate: 122 cm x 137.1 cm x 91.5 cm; 48 1/32 in x 53 31/32 in x 36 1/32 in