Test tube rack
- ID-nummer
- 2022.019.001
- Titel
- Test tube rack
- Objektkategori
- Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller
- Publik beskrivning
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This test tube rack has a special place in Emmanuelle Charpentier’s heart. She first used it while on a postdoc at Rockefeller University in New York. To ensure no one took her rack, she labelled it with her nickname: “Manue C”. For Charpentier, the test tube rack symbolises her time as a microbiologist and reminds her of doctoral student days at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where they had similar racks, and in New York. She saw a similar test tube rack in a museum in Berlin that had been used by Nobel Prize laureate Robert Koch and thought her rack might also one day belong in a museum. Compared to modern test tube racks made of plastic, this older rack is wooden. It was also used as a pen holder.
Emmanuelle Charpentier donated the test tube rack to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2020. - Pristagare
- Emmanuelle Charpentier
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