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Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 566
Abstract

Marshall W. Nirenberg is best known for his work on deciphering the genetic code by discovering the unique code words for the twenty major amino acids that make-up DNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1968. This collection of correspondence, laboratory administrative and research materials, and publications documents Nirenberg's career as a researcher in biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health.

Dates: 1937-2003 (bulk 1957-1997)

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Framingham Heart Study administrative records

 Collection
Identifier: HMD MS ACC 2015-039
Scope and content Administrative records documenting the beginnings and first phase of the Framignham longitudinal heart study (correspondence, memoranda) (1948-1973), outgoing correspondence (1978-1990); limited to the original cohort as directly managed by NHLBI. Also 9 volumes of the published data tables, historical/exhibit materials, Town of Framingham Lists of Residents (used to select subjects), reprint of first study publication (1951), internal report 'The heart disease program' (2 sections:...
Dates: 1948 - 1990

U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare, National Blood Policy Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 393
Abstract

Reports, documents, correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter. A sizable number of the items are copies. In 1972 President Richard Nixon called for an "intensive study" and requested a plan for developing a "safe, fast, and efficient nationwide blood collection and distribution system."

Dates: 1969-1981

W. French Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 620
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, research data, meeting agendas and minutes, and protocols documenting Dr. W. French Anderson's pioneering application of gene therapy in a human subject.

Dates: 1977-1995