A Legacy of Shared Curiosity
Homogeneous Immunoglobulin Workshops
These happy scientists had just attended the first Homogeneous Immunoglobulin Workshop, which took place on the NIH campus in 1969. Filled with passionate debate, this exciting meeting had been arranged by Potter (above, third from the left) and Martin Weigert from the Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, to discuss the newest results and ideas in immunoglobulin research. The annual workshops continued until 1979.
“The folks working and passionate about a problem would get together and just get up and present what they had to say, what they had to quibble about or squabble about… .” —Michael Paul Cancro, University of Pennsylvania
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Potter and Colleagues talking at a workshop
Myron Leon, Elliott Osserman, and Michael Potter at the 1969 workshop. Although they were all in different organizations, the three had known and worked together for years.
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