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Interesting, I've used "Bovine Serum Albumin, Fraction V" a lot in my research. It looks like the "Fraction V" was because it was the 5th fraction in Cohn's procedure.

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That's cool! And for the most part, yes! It came out last. Although, last was not always precisely 5th. Some of the fractions came out in multiple parts as time went on and the process was improved/changed. But they kept the early fraction names mostly the same in spite of that.

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Wonderful read!

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Really glad you enjoyed it, in particular! I read your original von Neumann post when I was still in college, before I knew much about the history of R&D, and was enthralled. It looms in my head as *the bar* for how enjoyable a blog post in this area can be.

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