Rodney Robert Porter

“The problem of the structure of antibodies is now largely solved, though of course much detail remains to be filled in and the explanation of the generation of diversity of the combining site awaits a satisfactory explanation.”

“It is perhaps not surprising that for the next 20 years the main interest in antibody research was on the biological rather than the chemical aspects of their activity.”

“Our aim was to obtain from the rabbit γ-globulin molecule, a fragment which had lost the biological activities of the parent molecule but had retained the specific combining power.”