National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S.)

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Scrapbooks, diaries, reprints, speeches, photographs, awards, correspondence, and audiovisual material document with a broad brush Rall's personal life and professional career as a research endocrinologist, scientific director at NIAMD and deputy director for intramural research at NIDDK and NIH.

Abstract Awards, NIDDK/NIAMS historical background materials, scientific strategic planning retreat meetings. Electronic records include powerpoint presentations, personal/travel photos, sent email archives. Katz was NIAMS director who was also an important figure in many trans-NIH initiatives and promoting the scientific enterprise writ-large. These papers are also a snapshot of NIDDK/NIAMS history as collected by the director's office administrative staff over many years before Katz's tenure, so...

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Weiss achieved distinction in the fields of natural products chemistry, medicinal chemistry and synthetic methods. In 1955 he developed a method for synthetically transforming the analgesic Oxymorphone (marketed as Numorphan). While at NIH Weiss studied the analgesic properties of alkaloids (morphine, opium, heroin, codeine), and the synthesis of polyquinanes and polyquinenes.