Test plate and pipette · Welcome to the Nobel Prize Laureate Collection

ID-nummer

2018.012.001

Titel

Test plate and pipette

Objektkategori

Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller

Publik beskrivning

This plate with wells for 96 different samples was especially made for Frances Arnold’s experiments with enzymes. By lowering the plate into a water bath near boiling point, the test series could be kept hot, to examine the ability of the various enzymes to facilitate chemical reactions at high temperatures. The distances between the wells correspond to those between the tips of a pipette that was used to produce eight samples simultaneously. In later experiments, plates with wells could be purchased ready-made. The researchers then used this plate simply as a weight to hold down materials in the water bath.

Frances Arnold donated the test plate and the pipette to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2018.

Pristagare

Frances H. Arnold