University of Colorado Medical Center

Theodore Puck (1916-2005) was an Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award winning geneticist who pioneered somatic cell genetics and founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Colorado Medical Center. Laboratory notebooks, manuscript drafts, correspondence, school notes, and photographs predominately document Puck’s professional life in this collection.

Ward Darley was Professor of Medicine, 1946-1956, and Dean, 1945-1948, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Many items in the collection relate to the Association of American Medical Colleges (1958-67), the American Medical Association (1964-66), the American Academy of General Practice (1960-67), EDUCOM (1964-68), and the White House Conference on Health (1965-66).