Rh Notation
- Date:
- 1944-1960
- Reference:
- SA/BGU/C
- Part of:
- Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit (1935-1995)
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
In the decades leading up to the Second World War, geneticists around the world devised various conflicting nomenclatures to describe blood groups. Notation for Rh was controversial because two different notations based on different genetic theories were proposed. Rh notation was particularly critical because the system was clinically very important, and so in order to reduce the potential for confusion in research and clinical transfusions, attempts were made to agree on a consistent international nomenclature.
The papers below include letters on Rh notation from many distinguished geneticists.
Publication/Creation
1944-1960
Physical description
5 files
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.