Abstract
This is a personal story about how to get your scientific career started with a bang. It may not be as easy today as it was in the 1960s, but I think the principles still apply. I hope that this personal recounting will be useful to young scientists trying to establish their career.
Highlights
This is a personal story about how to get your scientific career started with a bang
The second was the report by Bob Mishell and Dick Dutton [4] describing in vitro antibody formation against sheep red blood cells (SRBC) in mouse spleen cell cultures
Bob Mishell and Dick Dutton were very cordial hosts (Dick Dutton is a lifelong friend), and I learned all the secrets of the culture technique that were not revealed in their paper, such as, only selected sources of SRBC and fetal calf serum would work, the rabbit complement for developing the hemolytic plaques needed to come from the right rabbit, and adding new medium to the cultures each day was essential
Summary
This is a personal story about how to get your scientific career started with a bang. It helped that I had worked in the laboratory of Felix Haurowitz at IU studying rabbit antibody responses to closely related haptens, and had some introduction to the field of immunology, and that Professor Haurowitz was friends with Sir Peter.
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