Carrel Flask
notes: label: Description
content: Alexis Carrel (1873–1944) was a French surgeon who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine In 1912. Later, while working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, he devised a tissue culture flask with an angled neck that prevented unwanted airborne particles from falling into the brew, and that could be sterilized with a flame, before and after adding or removing nutrient broth.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alexis Carrel, “Tissue Culture and Cell Physiology.” Physiological Reviews 4 (1924): 1–20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0071.09
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0071.09
label: accession number
content: 1991.0071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Carrel Flask
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.6 cm x 9.6 cm x 3.8 cm; 5/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in