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Collection Summary From the Collection: Administrative material, correspondence, reports, publications, minutes, and personal items (92 linear feet; 1941-2004) document the career of Julius B. Richmond, pediatrician, public health official, and university professor. The papers are a complete and comprehensive documentary record of his service and activities. The main focus of the collection is on his career in the academic world as well as service to the public, including his tenure as the U.S. Surgeon General (1977-1981). The...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Writings, correspondence, subject files, reprints, research files, business documents, clippings, photographs, audiovisual records, and memorabilia document the professional career and medical marijuana advocacy activities of psychiatrist Dr. Tod Mikuriya. A highlight of the collection is the extensive ephemera and artifacts related to medical marijuana and medical activism contained in Series 7. Series 1 is comprised of personal records including documents pertaining to Dr....

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The CG sub-series contains material that continues the ongoing correspondence of colleagues, friends, students, and agencies from the private and public sectors as represented in other Correspondence sub-series. It is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Documents were left primarily in original order. Document types found in the sub-series include correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, and publications (articles, clippings, and reprints).

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, photographs, diaries, research materials, reports, writings, drafts, and audiovisual materials (1910-2002; 62.5 linear feet) document the semi-official portion of Donald S. Fredrickson's professional career as a leading biomedical administrator and policy maker. Beginning with his clinical laboratory career at the National Heart Institute, Fredrickson spent over 28 years at NIH, culminating in 1975-1981 when he was Institute Director. During the course of his career,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Genetics Research series contains Lederberg's research notes and lab notebooks from his years as a graduate student at Columbia and Yale, the time he spent as a professor/researcher at the University of Wisconsin and his experiments with bacteria recombination that won him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958, and material from his involvement in the creation of Stanford University's Department of Genetics.Along with research notes, grant applications and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The CC sub-series documents Lederberg's role in creating the Department of Genetics at Stanford University and his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1958.It is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Organization within folders is chronological. Document types found in the sub-series include correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, applications, photographs, publications (articles, clippings and reprints), recordings (vinyl), and notes. Material is in English, Russian, Chinese,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The CD sub-series documents Lederberg's tenure at Stanford University and his eventual resignation. While the majority of the correspondence in this sub-series relates to Lederberg's career, material of a more personal nature can be found in the Seymour Lederberg folder.The sub-series is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Documents were primarily left in original order. Document types found in the sub-series include correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, reports,...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, photographs, research materials, reports, writings, and audiovisual materials (1936; 1944-1993, 17.5 linear feet) document the official portion of Paul MacLean's career in brain and behavioral research. Through his research at Yale Medical School and at the National Institute of Mental Health, MacLean was instrumental in developing and expounding the theory of the Triune Brain. Highlights of the collection include 33 years of project reports from the NIMH Laboratory of Brain...

Collection Summary From the Collection: The bulk of the collection documents research conducted by Dr. Calhoun during his career at NIMH. Users will also find much information in Calhoun's writings about NIH internal and external politics. Calhoun was often on the cutting-edge of behavioral research during a time of dramatic scientific organizational change at NIH. Calhoun arranged the entire corpus of his research documentation within a series entitled the Historical Flow Chart (HFC). In addition to this, Calhoun employed several...