László Detre (microbiologist)
László Detre (October 29, 1874, Nagysurány – May 7, 1939, Washington, DC (a.k.a. Ladislas Deutsch, Ladislaus Deutsch[1]) was a Hungarian physician and microbiologist,[2] the founder and first director of the Hungarian Serum Institute in Budapest.[3]
Detre suggested the term "antigen".[1][4] He is also a codiscoverer of the Wasserman reaction, publishing this finding on humans just two weeks after Wasserman published his findings on apes.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Origins of the Terms 'Antibody' and 'Antigen'", Scand. J. Immunol., 19, 281-285, 1984 p. 281
- ^ Detre László bakteriológus
- ^ "How immunology was won in Hungary", by János Gergely, Immunology Today, Volume 13, Issue 8, 1992, Pages A1-A3, doi:10.1016/0167-5699(92)90054-B
- ^ [1]
- ^ The Washington Century: Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation's Capital By Burt Solomon, 2005, ISBN 0060937858, [2]
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1874 |
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1939 |
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