BIOL 155/255: Investigating Immunity with Michelle Messmer: Historic Scientist

For this assignment, you will research a scientist who contributed to your chosen topic before 1990. Here are some ideas for finding a scientist:

• Notice who wrote the sources you have consulted so far and search their names with the relevant term
• Google the term you're researching with related terms like: Nobel, discovered, history, earliest, first
• Make an appointment with Haley to research

Here is an example of how this could look:

Topic: cytokines

Google search: cytokines discovered

Result: Article called "Historical Review of Cytokines" 

Section of the article:

Click on the Reference listed there: [4] "Potentiation of the T-lymphocyte response to mitogens" (1972)

Read about the study and what they discovered.

Google search: Igal Gery

Read about his life and work.