Object Details
maker
Corning
Description
In 1983–84, both Dr. Luc Montagnier, Pasteur Institute, Paris, and Dr. Robert Gallo, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, discovered HIV. They resolved the dispute over priority by sharing recognition as co-discoverers and co-patentees of the test kit, and by the equal sharing of all royalties. In 1983 Dr. Jay Levy and his colleagues at the University of Califonia at San Francisco also isolated the virus. Levy used this equipment to collect cell cultures and tally cells during his HIV research.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of the University of California San Francisco through Dr. Jay Levy
ID Number
1999.0286.03
accession number
1999.0286
catalog number
1999.0286.03
Object Name
filtering flask
Physical Description
glass (overall material)
rubber (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 57.912 cm x 17.78 cm x 32.258 cm; 22 13/16 in x 7 in x 12 11/16 in
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Science & Scientific Instruments
Science
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_599954