Coomassie Brilliant Blue
name: label: manufacturer
content: Bio-Rad Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Brown glass bottle with a black screw cap, and a paper label that reads in part “Electrophoresis / Purity Grade / COOMASSIE / BRILLIANT BLUE / R-250 / Contents: 10 g / C.I. = 42660 / This material is the highest / quality obtainable for use in / gel electrophoresis. / BIO-RAD Laboratories . . .” Coomassie blue, developed as an acid wool dye, was named to commemorate the 1896 British occupation of the Ashanti capital, then known as Coomassie and now known as Kumasi, in Ghana.
label: Description
content: Bio-Rad was established in 1952, in a 1,600-square-foot Quonset hut in Berkeley, California, and moved to Richmond in 1958. The founders were David Schwartz (1923-2012) and Alice Schwartz (1925/6-), a young couple who had met as science students at the University of California, Berkeley. The firm offered life science products and services to identify, separate, purify, and analyze chemical and biological materials. In time, according to Forbes, Alice Schwartz became the oldest, richest woman in the United States.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth M. Heller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0325.062
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.062
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aniline Dye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.7 cm x 4.2 cm; 3 1/16 in x 1 5/8 in