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Earle Milford Rice Papers

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Identifier: MS C 80
Abstract

Maps, graphs, charts, reprints, and photographs documenting Rice's cholera and malaria research in India during the 1930s. Also included are some biographical material and clippings relating to his work in South Carolina.

Dates: 1926-1941

Eugene P. Campbell Papers

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Identifier: MS C 467
Abstract Dr. Campbell earned a M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1933 and a master's in public health from the Pennsylvania School of Public Health in 1942. When the Second World War broke out, he was teaching epidemiology there and wanting to contribute to the war effort, he went to work for the fledgling Institute of Inter-American Affairs (IIAA). The papers date from the 1940s to the 1970s and consist of Campbell's journals and their accompanying photographs, correspondence, reports and...
Dates: 1941-1986

Fred Lowe Soper Papers

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Identifier: MS C 359
Abstract Dr. Fred Soper joined the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1920 and engaged in the hookworm campaigns in Brazil and Paraguay (1920-1927). From 1927-1942 he was Regional Director of the IHD, at Rio de Janeiro, and was active in the study and control of yellow fever and malaria. Dr. Soper was Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for three terms (1947-1959). The collection contains an extensive file of publications, notes, and other data relating to yellow...
Dates: 1919-1975

Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine Records

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Identifier: MS C 212
Abstract The Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Incorporated (GMITP) was founded in 1921 and was named after William C. Gorgas. Gorgas was a U.S. Surgeon General and was known throughout the world as the conqueror of the mosquito and the malaria and yellow fever it transmits. His pioneer efforts in halting an epidemic of yellow fever enabled the United States to complete the Panama Canal. Its mission was to create a health education program to train researchers in tropical...
Dates: 1899-1992

Henry Rose Carter Papers

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Identifier: MS C 160
Abstract

Primarily reprints of articles by Carter and others on the epidemiology of yellow fever and malaria. Also contains some correspondence and notes.

Dates: 1899-1968

Louis L. Williams Papers

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Identifier: MS C 169
Abstract

Correspondence, photos and slides, reports, notes, reprints, and printed matter. Material pertains chiefly to the study and control of malaria, particularly in China, India, Puerto Rico, and U.S. military camps.

Dates: 1910-1970

Mason V. Hargett Papers

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Identifier: MS C 533
Abstract

Mason V. Hargett contributed greatly to the field of tropical medicine with his work on the yellow fever vaccine, first with the Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil and then at the USPHS Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana. Hargett's research facilitated the introduction of a yellow fever vaccine produced without human serum.

Dates: 1932-1986 (bulk 1938-1946)

Michael Heidelberger Papers

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Identifier: MS C 245a
Abstract

Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991) is known as one of the founders of quantitative immunochemistry, and in the course of his career studied, among others, bacterial polysaccharides (particularly pneumococcal), as well as the immunochemistry of proteins, antibodies, and antigens. The papers deal primarily with Heidelberger's career as a teacher, researcher, and active member of the scientific community.

Dates: 1901-1990 (bulk 1940-1975)

Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

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Identifier: MS C 69
Abstract

Sawyer is best known for his role in developing a vaccine for yellow fever and working to eradicate the disease as a public health threat whle working for the Rockefeller Foundation's West Africa Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates: 1879-1995

Wojciech Antoni "Al" Krotoski papers

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Identifier: HMD MS ACC 2019-018
Abstract Personal papers related to career PHS Officer Krotoski's research on malaria and other tropical diseases, primarily from his duty station at National Hansen's Disease Center in Carville, La., especially his work on the discovery of the hypnozoite form of malaria in 1980. Contents include photomicroscopy slides/prints with accompanying lab notebook inventory; travel and teaching slides esp. from foreign research projects in China, Marshall Islands; publication files; research and...
Dates: 1950s-1995

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