Herb and Celia Tabor papers

Primarily lab notebooks, largely in three-ring binders. Tabor (1918-2020) was an American biochemist and physician-scientist who specialized in the function of polyamines and their role in human health and disease (polyamines are compounds that play a role in controlling the growth of normal cells and cancer cells). Editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (1971-2019). Senior principal investigator in the NIDDK Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics; served as lab chief 1962-1999. Was the longest-serving NIH employee (1943-2020); its oldest principal investigator. Celia White Tabor (1918-2015) was an American biochemist and physician-scientist who was an expert on the biosynthesis of polyamines. She was a researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases from 1952 until her retirement in 2005. She and her husband received the 1986 Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington and the 1995 William C. Rose Award of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.