Köhler’s Invention

• Main Author: Eichmann, Klaus (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.

Georges Köhler (1946-1995) was one of the most prominent German scientists of recent history. In 1984, at an age of 38, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with N.K. Jerne and C. Milstein, for inventing the technique for generating monoclonal antibodies. This method and i...

Table of Contents:

• The time before
• A short history of the antibody problem
• The immunological scene around Köhler
• Köhler’s entry into science
• The quest for monoclonal antibodies
• Cell fusion
• Köhler in Cambridge
• Back in Basel
• The patent disaster
• The time after
• The Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology
• Getting Köhler to Freiburg
• “Köhler’s Max-Planck-Institute”
• Human relations
• Post-Nobel science I
• Post-Nobel science II
• Köhler’s death
• Magic bullet
• The antibody problem today — not quite solved.