Lang-Levy Pipette
Lang-Levy Pipette
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- Description
- The Lang-Levy pipette, a basic tool in biochemistry, was designed in 1936 by Milton Levy (1903-1976), a biochemist working with Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang, Director of the Carlberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark. The inscription on this example reads "Cat No. 6000 Pfeiffer Glass U.S.A. 150 microns 20 C." Pfeiffer Glass was a firm in Rochester, N.Y. that specialized in pipettes of borosilicate glass.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pipette, Lang-Levy
- pipette
- maker
- Pfeiffer Glass
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 cm x 1.1 cm; 5 29/32 in x 7/16 in
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 1.27 cm
- ID Number
- 2004.0147.024
- accession number
- 2004.0147
- catalog number
- 2004.0147.024
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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