Abstract
Contains laboratory notebooks, correspondence, and a copy of his autobiographical sketch.
Dates
- 1944-1960
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet (1 box)
Creator
- Loewi, Otto, 1873-1961 (Person)
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Language of Materials
Collection materials primarily in English and German
Restrictions
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Biographical Note
In 1936 Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Hallet Dale were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses. Only two years later he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Forced to hand over his share of the Nobel Prize money as ransom for his life, Loewi escaped to England without a penny to his name. In June 1940, armed with a doctor's certificate proclaiming his - "senility... not able to earn a living!" Loewi reached the United States to discover the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts. During the summers he augmented his study of cells, their structure and how they function in relation to each other. As a permanent research professor at New York University College of Medicine, Loewi illustrated how a great mind honed on the classics could perceive scientific truths that might otherwise have been overlooked.
Collection Summary
Contains laboratory notebooks, 1944-1952, from the period when Loewi was a researcher at the New York University College of Medicine and a copy of his autobiographical sketch, 1960, which was originally printed in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine vo. IV, no. 1. Correspondents are Arnold S.V. Burgen and Henry R. Viets.
Abstract
Contains laboratory notebooks, correspondence, and a copy of his autobiographical sketch.
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Provenance
Gift, Peter Olch, 1967.
General
- Processed by
- HMD staff; Jim Labosier
- Processing Completed
- 1968; 2003
- Encoded by
- Jim Labosier
Creator
- Loewi, Otto, 1873-1961 (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Otto Loewi Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence 1944-1960
- Status
- Unverified Partial Draft
- Author
- HMD staff; Jim Labosier
- Date
- 1968; 2003
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Edition statement
- 1.0
Collecting Area Details
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