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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HIRST, George Keble (1909 – 1994)

1909 – 1994

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1941 CE

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The agglutination of red cells by allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with influenza virus.

HIRST, George Keble (1909 – 1994)

Discovery of virus hemagglutination. Between 1941 and 1942 Hirst developed the hemagglutination assay for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria or antibodies.