Merrill Chase, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMerrill Chase
American immunologist
Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1905
Date of Death: 05-Jan-2004
Profession: immunologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Merrill Chase
- Merrill W.
- Chase (September 17, 1905 – January 5, 2004) was an immunologist working at the Rockefeller University in New York City who is credited with discovering cell-mediated immunology in the early 1940s.
- While working with Dr.
- Karl Landsteiner, Dr.
- Chase discovered that white blood cells, and not antibodies alone, were important instruments of the immune system.
- His findings laid the groundwork for later research that discovered the role of B cells, T cells and other types of white blood cells.
- Recognizing that other scientists were discovering multiple functions of the immune system, he established an independent Immunology laboratory at Rockefeller.
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