Elvin Abraham Kabat | |
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| Born | September 1, 1914 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 16, 2000 (aged 85) |
| Alma mater | City College of New York (BS) Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (PhD) |
| Known for | Discovering structure and genetics of antibodies |
| Spouse | Sally Lennick |
| Children | 3; including Jon Kabat-Zinn |
| Awards | Eli Lilly Award in Bacteriology and Immunology (1949) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1977) National Medal of Science (1991) American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award (1995)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Immunology |
| Institutions | Columbia University National Institutes of Health |
Elvin Abraham Kabat (September 1, 1914 – June 16, 2000) was an American biomedical scientist and one of the founding fathers of quantitative immunochemistry. Kabat was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1977, National Medal of Science in 1991, and American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.[2] He is the father of Jon Kabat-Zinn.[3]
Elvin A. Kabat was the president of the American Association of Immunologists from 1965 to 1966, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He designed the eponymous Kabat numbering scheme for numbering amino acid residues in antibodies based on their variable regions. In 1969, he started collecting and aligning the amino acid sequences of human and mouse Bence Jones proteins and immunoglobulin light chains.[1]
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