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Elvin A. Kabat
American immunologist
1914 – 2000aged 85
A biomedical scientist regarded as one of the founders of quantitative immunochemistry, whose numbering scheme for antibody amino acid sequences, the Kabat numbering system, remains a standard reference tool in immunology and antibody engineering. He led the American Association of Immunologists and received the National Medal of Science in 1991 for work that put the study of antibodies on a rigorous quantitative footing.