Papers, 1827, 1835, 1848-1978 (inclusive), 1910-1946 (bulk)

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945

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Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard, A.B. 1896; A.M. 1897; M.D. 1900; Honorary Sc.D. 1937) taught physiology at Harvard and was George Higginson Professor of Physiology and Chairman of the Department. He was innovative in both research and medical education. In 1900 he adapted the case system for teaching medicine. His scientific research includes studies on the digestive tract and experiments on the denervated heart and his contributions include the concept of homeostasis and the discovery of the t...

McCouch, Grayson P.

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Forbes, Alexander, active 18th century-19th century

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Title: 10th Baron Forbes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001242.0x0002c5 Title: 1st Baron Forbes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000375 Epithet: Representative of the borough of Inverurie British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001242.0x0002c4 ...

American Electroencephalographic Society

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The American Electroencephalographic Society was formed in 1946 by academic and clinical investigators studying brain functions seeking to establish and maintain standards of professional excellence in the clinical applications of cerebral neurophysiology. In 1995, the organization changed its name to the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. From the description of Records, 1940s-1976. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79753366 ...

Gerard, R. W. (Ralph Waldo), 1900-1974

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Ralph Waldo Gerard was a neurophysiologist, behavioral scientist, and academic known for his wide-ranging work on the nervous system, nerve metabolism, psychopharmacology, and biological bases of schizophrenia. He was born in 1900 and studied chemistry and physiology in Chicago. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and the University of Michigan. From 1963 to 1970 he served as Professor of Biological Sciences and Dean of the Graduate Division at the Univer...

American Physiological Society (1887- )

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Cobb, Stanley, 1887-1968

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Stanley Cobb, 1887-1968, MD, 1914, Harvard Medical School, was Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School; Cobb taught neurology at Harvard Medical School from 1919 to 1954. Cobb served as Chief of the Neurology Service at Boston City Hospital from 1925 until 1934 when he was appointed Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, a position he held until his retirement in 1954. During a trip to Europe, 1924-1925, as a Rockefeller Fellow, he made a wide range of profe...

Williams, Horatio B.

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Forbes, Alexander, 1882-1965

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Forbes graduated from Harvard in 1904 and taught physiology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alexander Forbes, ca. 1924. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 236232211 Alexander Forbes, 1882-1965, M.D., 1910, Harvard Medical School; was Professor of Physiology at Harvard Medical School and a pioneer in the development of electrophysiology. He taught at Harvard Medical School from 1910 to 1948. In addition to his medical research on the function of the centr...

Harvard Medical School.

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U. S. Public Health Service.

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Fulton, John F.

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John G. Fulton was a student at the University of Virginia in 1834. Professor John P. Emmet was the first professor of Natural History at the University of Virginia. From the description of Notes on chemistry taken from the lectures of Dr. John P. Emmet, 1834. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 528791102 Baptist clergyman at Tecumseh, Michigan. From the description of John I. Fulton papers, 1846. (University of Mich...

Eccles, John C. (John Carew), 1903-1997

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Neuroscientist, received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1963. From the description of Papers of John Eccles, 1911-1997 [manuscript]. 1911-1997. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225831529 ...

Alexander Forbes

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Milton Academy.

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Gasser, Herbert S.

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Adrian, Edgar D.

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Davis, Hallowell, 1896-1992

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Physiologist and otolaryngologist (1896-1992). Graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1922, and served on its faculty from 1923 to 1946. Director, Central Institute for the Deaf (1946-1965). Research professor of otolaryngology (1946-1965) and professor of physiology (1946-1965), Washington University School of Medicine. From the description of Oral history interview with Hallowell Davis, 1977. 1977. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 61332021 Da...

Wald, George, 1906-1997

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George David Wald, 1906-1997, was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard University, and a promoter ofprogressive political and social causes. From the description of Papers of George Wald, 1927-1996. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77065767 Educator, biochemist. From the description of Reminiscences of George Wald : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741205 ...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Sherrington, Charles Scott, Sir, 1857-1952

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