Lymphology, medical ignorance/ignoramics and the Nobel connection: Howard Florey, Joshua Lederberg, and Françoise Barre-Sinoussi.
Intriguing interludes with Nobel laureates have marked the history of Lymphology. Bounded (or rather unbounded) by a mutual fascination with ignorance and the unknown, their curiosity converged around microbes, infections, and host responses mediated by the lymphatic system. These studies transcended a simple "molecular model of life".
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Department of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona 85724-5200, USA. lymph@u.arizona.edu
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008208:Lymphatic System / Q000502:physiology*; D009613:Nobel Prize