Sequenator
date: label: date made
content: 1967
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Frame and body made from stainless steel. Back and top panels made from mint green metal. Top has a small monitor on the right and a panel with buttons and dials to the left. Bottom of the instrument is open and tubing and wiring is visible. The left side panel has been removed and is stored separately under 2014.0002.01.23.
label: Description
content: Per Edman (1916-1977) was a Swedish biochemist who in 1957, after some advanced work at the Princeton branch of the Rockefeller Institute, became the first director of St. Vincent’s School of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. In 1967, Dr. Edman and his technical assistant, Geoffrey Begg, unveiled the Sequenator, an early and efficient protein sequencer. This is the third prototype of that instrument.
label: Description
content: Dr. Edman moved to the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, near Munich, in 1972; and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in London in 1974.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carl F.H. Edman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0002.01.01
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0002.01.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: protein sequencer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; plastic; glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 52 1/2 in x 37 in x 34 in; 133.35 cm x 93.98 cm x 86.36 cm