The Scientist Staff | Mar 17, 1991 | 2 min read
J.G. Bodmer, S.G.E. Marsh, E. Albert, "Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 1989," Immunology Today, 11, 3-10, January 1990. Julia Bodmer (Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London): "`What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.' Shakespeare was right only in pointing out that it does not matter whether we call the flower a rose or a widget. The important thing is that we all call it by the same name. The 1989 nomenclature report is the ninth in a