László Detre (October 29, 1874, Nagysurány – May 7, 1939,

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(a.k.a. Ladislas Deutsch, Ladislaus Deutsch"Origins of the Terms '

Antibody An antibody (Ab), also known as an immunoglobulin (Ig), is a large, Y-shaped protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects such as pathogenic bacteria and viruses. The antibody recognizes a unique molecule of the ...

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, the founder and first director of the Hungarian Serum Institute in Budapest. Detre coined the term "

antigen In immunology, an antigen (Ag) is a molecule or molecular structure or any foreign particulate matter or a pollen grain that can bind to a specific antibody or T-cell receptor. The presence of antigens in the body may trigger an immune response. ...

" in a 1903 French-language paper co-authored with Russian biologist

Élie Metchnikoff Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (russian: Илья Ильич Мечников; – 15 July 1916), also spelled Élie Metchnikoff, was a Russian zoologist best known for his pioneering research in immunology. Belkin, a Russian science historian, explains ...

(referring to "substances immunogènes ou antigènes"), although the word and concept appears in his research as early as 1899. He is also a codiscoverer of the Wassermann reaction, publishing his discovery in humans just two weeks after Wassermann documented his findings in apes.The Washington Century: Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation's Capital By Burt Solomon, 2005,

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