| 1 | Creator: | Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Simon Flexner Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1891-1946 | | | | Abstract: | Simon Flexner, born in 1863, one of the nation's leading experts in pathology and bacteriology, was most renowned for his research on cerebrospinal meningitis, polio and infantile paralysis. Arguably though, Flexner's stewardship of the Rockefeller Institute was his greatest contribution to medical and scientific research. His rise in the medical community began in the late nineteenth century in Louisville, Kentucky, where despite not having completed even the seventh grade, Flexner taught himself basic bacteriology by conducting experiments at home using a microscope borrowed from the pharmacy where he served as an apprentice. Granted a medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1889, he went on to a pathology fellowship at the newly opened John Hopkins School of Medicine. Within two short years of leaving Louisville, Flexner received an assistant of pathology appointment at Johns Hopkins. It was a quick ascent and the beginning of a long and brilliant career that included a prestigious appointment at the University of Pennsylvania and then a directorship at the new Rockefeller Institute where he realized his lifelong dream of creating a dynamic and productive research laboratory. The Rockefeller Institute became instantly famous worldwide as the preeminent research facility for virology and under Flexner's direction produced invaluable contributions in pathology, bacteriology, and immunology.
This collection does not reflect the early phases of Flexner's career at Johns Hopkins but does document an early interest in meningitis and other infectious diseases with science-related correspondence, laboratory notebooks, and administrative correspondence with the New York City and State Departments of Health. There is abundant material on Flexner's directorship of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, including Flexner's search for staff, an involved process which is detailed in correspondence with the scientists, many of whom became quite famous. Also included is material relating to the other institutions and Rockefeller philanthropies with which Flexner was involved. (Among the most significant correspondence, however, may be that which documents the support of the General Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation in the development and subsequent reorganization of medical schools following brother Abraham Flexner's scathing report on medical education in the United States and Canada). This collection would be of great interest to anyone interested in the history of bacteriology, histology, and immunology or the general history of modern medicine and philanthropy. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F365 | | | | Extent: | 115.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cairns, Hugh, Sir, 1896-1952 | Cannon, Walter B., (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945 | Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944 | Cohn, Alfred E., (Alfred Einstein), 1879-1957 | Cole, Rufus Ivory, 1872-1966 | Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 | Councilman, W.T. (William Thomas), 1854-1933 | Diaries. | Diseases | Education-United States | Epidemics--United States | Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959 | Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946 | Gelatin silver prints | Gowen, John Whittemore, 1893-1967 | Immunology | Indians of North America--Arizona | Indians of North America--New Mexico | Landscape photographs | Lee, Frederic S. (Frederic Schiller), 1859-1939 | Leishman, William B., Sir, 1865-1926 | Levene, P. A. (Phoebus Aaron), 1869-1940 | Mall, Franklin P. (Franklin Paine), 1862-1917 | Medical education-United States | Medical sciences-United States | Medicine-United States | Meltzer, Samuel James, 1851-1920 | Meningitis, Cerebrospinal-United States | Mirsky, Alfred E. | Navajo Indians. | Noguchi, Hideyo, 1876-1928 | Olitsky, Peter K. | Opie, Eugene L., (Eugene Lindsay), 1873-1971 | Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 | Osten, Anna L. von der | Papago Indian Reservation (Ariz.) | Pathology-United States | Poliomyelitis-United States | Portrait photographs | Public Health-United States | Rockefeller Foundation. | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. | Sabin, Albert B., (Albert Bruce), 1906- | Saddington, Ronald S. | Shaw, Edward B. | Shope, Richard E., (Richard Edwin), 1901- | Smith, Theobald, 1859-1934 | Spielmeyer, W. (Walther), b. 1879 | Stewart, Walter B. | Stokes, Joseph, 1896-1972 | Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 | Vallery-Radot, Pasteur, 1886 | Van Slyke, Donald Dexter, 1883-1971 | Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960 | Wadsworth, Augustus Baldwin, 1872-1954 | Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934 | |
| 2 | Creator: | American Philosophical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | | American Physical Society and American Philosophical Society. | | | | | American Physical Society. | | | | Title: | Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk)
| | | | Dates: | 1898-1950 | | | | Abstract: | Primary source materials for the history of quantum physics in the twentieth century, collected under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the American Physical Society, with a grant from the National Science Foundation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.530.1.Ar2 | | | | Extent: | 300.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abraham, Max, 1875-1922 | Amaldi, Edoardo, 1908-1989 | Andrade, E. N. da C., (Edward Neville da Costa), 1887-1971 | Atomic theory. | Back, Ernst, 1881-1959 | Bauer, Edmond, 1880-1963 | Becquerel, Jean, 1878-1953 | Benedicks, Carl Axel Fredrik, 1875-1953 | Berliner, Arnold, 1862-1942 | Birge, Raymond T., (Raymond Thayer), 1887-1980 | Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962 | Born, Max, 1882-1970 | Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981 | Broglie, Louis de, 1892-1987 | Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967 | Complementarity (Physics) | Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 | Coster, Dirk, 1889-1950 | Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962 | Debye, Peter J. W., (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966 | Dieke, Gerhard Heinrich, 1901-1965 | Dirac, P. A. M., (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984 | Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944 | Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933 | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954 | Fokker, A. D., (Adriaan Daniel), 1887-1972 | Fowler, A., (Alfred), 1868-1940 | Franck, James, 1882-1964 | Gerlach, Walther, 1889-1979 | Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham, 1902-1978 | Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934 | Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934 | Hartree, Douglas R., (Douglas Rayner), 1897-1958 | Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 | Hilbert, David, 1862-1943 | Joliot-Curie, Frédéric | Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980 | Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike, 1853-1926 | Kapitsa, P. L., (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984 | Kayser, H., (Heinrich), 1853-1940 | Kemble, Edwin C., (Edwin Crawford), 1889-1984 | Klein, Oskar, 1894-1977 | Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952 | Ladenburg, Rudolf Walter, 1882-1952 | Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946 | Laue, Max von, 1879-1960 | London, Fritz, 1900-1954 | London, Fritz, 1900-1954 | McLennan, J. C., (John Cunningham), 1867-1935 | Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 | Memoirs. | Mie, Gustav, 1868-1957 | Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 | Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, 1896-1986 | Nishina, Yoshio, 1890-1951 | Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 | Oral histories | Oseen, C. W., (Carl Wilhelm), 1879-1944 | Paschen, F., (Friedrich), 1865-1947 | Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958 | Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958 | Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 | Photoprints. | Physicists. | Physics -- History. | Planck, Max, 1858-1947 | Quantum theory -- History. | Relativity (Physics) | Rosenfeld, L., (Leon), 1904-1974 | Rosseland, Svein, 1894-1985 | Rubens, Heinrich, 1865-1922 | Runge, Carl, 1856-1927 | Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937 | Scheel, Karl, 1866-1936 | Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961 | Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961 | Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951 | Stark, Johannes, 1874-1957 | Thomson, J. J., Sir, (Joseph John), 1856-1940 | Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988 | Van Vleck, J. H., (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980 | Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960 | Voigt, Woldemar, 1850-1919 | Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 | Warburg, Emil Gabriel, 1846-1931 | Wave mechanics. | Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002 | Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943 | |
| 3 | Creator: | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edward U. Condon Papers
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1920-1974 | | | | Abstract: | Edward Uhler Condon was a theoretical physicist at Princeton University and Westinghouse Laboratories who later served as director of the National Bureau of Standards (1945-1951), and as the director of research and development (1951-1954) and consulting physicist (1954-1974) at Corning Glass Works. The Condon Papers includes correspondence, notebooks, writings, photographs, and other materials concerning Condon's education, teaching, and his government, industrial, and academic. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C752 | | | | Extent: | 75.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Association for the Advancement of Science. | American Physical Society. | American-Soviet Science Society. | Atomic bomb--United States | Autobiographies. | Bethe, Hans A., (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005 | Bikini Atoll (Pacific Islands) | Birge, Raymond T., (Raymond Thayer), 1887-1980 | Boas, Ernst P., (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Branscomb, Lewis M., 1926- | Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981 | Briggs, Lyman J. , (Lyman James), 1874-1963 | Bronk, Detlev W., (Detlev Wulf), 1897-1975 | Chubb, Lewis Warrington, b. 1882 | Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962 | Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974 | Corning Glass Works. | Courant, Richard, 1888-1972 | David, Nathan H. | DuBridge, Lee A., (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994 | Durr, Clifford J., (Clifford Judkins), 1899-1975 | Durr, Virginia Foster | Eastern Industrial Personnel Security Board. | Federation of American Scientists. | Fowler, Levan, Hawes & Symington. | Gamow, George, 1904-1968 | Gurney-Taylor, Natalie | Journals (notebooks) | Kamen, Martin David, 1913- | Lectures | Loeb, Leonard B., (Leonard Benedict), 1891-1978 | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. | Menzel, Donald Howard, 1901-1976 | Meyerhoff, Howard A., (Howard Augustus), 1899- | Morley, Robert H. | Newman, James Roy, 1907-1966 | Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913- | Norberg, Richard E. | Notebooks | Nuclear physics--Research--United States | Nuclear weapons--Testing | Operation Crossroads, 1946 | Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912- | Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 | Pake, G. E. , (George Edward) | Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 | Phelps, John B., 1929- | Phillips, Melba, 1907- | Photoprints | Physics--Research--United States | Physics--Study and teaching | Quantum theory | Rabi, I. I., (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988 | Roberts, Walter O., 1915- | SANE, Inc. | Seitz, Frederick, 1911- | Society for Social Responsibility in Science (ACT). | Speeches. | Teller, Edward, 1908-2003 | Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 | United States--Politics and government--1945- | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District.. | United States. Atomic Energy Commission | United States. Department of Commerce. Loyalty Board | United States. National Bureau of Standards. | University of California, Berkeley. | University of Colorado, Boulder. | Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981 | Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960 | Visscher, Maurice B., 1901- | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). | Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978 | Westinghouse Electric Corporation. | |
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