| RefNo | EC/1968/19 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVIII, 92 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Mollison, Partick Loudon: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Mollison completed Landsteiner's work of converting blood transfusion from the empiric to the scientific. A decade ahead of the times he adopted the tracer method, first by reviving the neglected Ashby technique involving iso-antigenic markers and latterly with radioactive isotopes, to label erythrocytes in recipients. This allowed him, as initiator, and his colleagues to evaluate the deterioration of blood stored under variable conditions, to revolutionise the investigation of patients with haemolytic disorders, and to comprehend the effects of minor antigenic differences not only between donor and host in blood transfusion, but between pregnant mother and foetus. His studies have manifold clinical and physiological applications, have furthered knowledge in blood-group serology and genetics and in particular have quantified normal and abnormal blood destruction. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4813 | Mollison; Patrick Loudon (1914 - 2011) | 1914 - 2011 |