ABSTRACT
The fundamental position that immunology occupies among the natural sciences is no better demonstrated than by the fact that distinguished chemists outside the field of biomedical science have been fascinated by the basic biological significance of such topics as antibody formation and antigen-antibody interaction. Indeed, it was the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Svante Arrhenius who coined the term ‘immunochemistry’ in 1905 when he was invited to the University of California at Berkeley to present a series of lectures on the chemistry of immune reactions1 (Figures 1 and 2).
