Joshua Lederberg Papers 1904-2008

University of Wisconsin

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The University of Wisconsin-Extension promotes continuing education and lifelong learning by providing statewide access to university resources and research to the people of Wisconsin. Its four divisions are continuing education; cooperative extension; entrepreneurship and economic development; and broadcast and media innovations. From the guide to the University of Wisconsin Extension Program Reports, 1960-1969, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

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Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extra...

United States. Congress. House

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U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house of Congress. From the guide to the Subscription lists, 1870, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The first session of the Congress of the United States, under a resolution passed by the Congress of the Confederation, on September 13, 1788, was called to meet in New York City on March 4, 1789. On the appointed day only 13 Members of the House were present and, as this number did not constitute a quorum, the sessions...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Crow, James F. (James Franklin), 1916-2012

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Muller, Herman J.

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Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research.

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Djerassi, Carl

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Genetics society of America

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The Genetics Society of America was established in 1931 out of the combination of the Joint Genetics Section of the American Society of Zoologists and the Botanical Society of America, with the aim of facilitating communication among scientists with an interest in research and education in genetics and cognate fields. Periodically, the Society has taken an active stance on issues of public policy relating to genetics, most notably in the debate over the putatively heritable correlat...

Nossal, G. J. V. (Gustav Joseph Victor), 1931-

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Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Tatum, Edward L.

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Demerec, M. (Milislav), 1895-1966

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Milislav Demerec, who immigrated from Yugoslavia in 1919, worked as a geneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York from 1923-1960. His major work was in maize genetics, on Drosophila virilis, and radiation and chemical mutagens. From the description of Papers, 1919-1966. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122464703 Papers of James V. Neel, pioneering human population geneticist and professor in the Department of Human Ge...

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

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Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8, 1916 in Weston Favell, a district of Northampton, in central England. At age 18, Crick attended University College London (UCL). In 1937, he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree, second honors, in Physics with a minor in mathematics. With family financial aid, Crick began graduate study at UCL until the outbreak of World War II interrupted his studies. Crick's war work involved research on magnetic and acoustic mines for the British Admiralty. ...

United States. Congress. Senate

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National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...

Carnegie Commission

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Space Science Board

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Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC)

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Luria, Salvador E.

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Bristol Laboratories

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Defense Science Board (DSB)

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Office of Technology Assessment

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Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)

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Lederberg, Joshua

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Professor of Genetics at Stanford Medical School (1959-1978). Lederberg received a Nobel prize in 1958 and became president of Rockefeller Univeristy in 1978. From the description of Stanford University, ACME Project, records, 1961-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122446055 Lederberg earned his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1947. He taught genetics at the University of Wisconsin before coming to the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1959 as Professor of genetics an...

Cavalli-Sforza, Luca

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Watson, James

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Epithet: of Add MS 22910 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x000138 Epithet: Lord Provost of Glasgow 1872 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979.0x0001be Epithet: Deputy to the British Resident at Amsterdam British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000979....

Novick, Aaron, 1919-2000

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Hayes, William

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x00019c Epithet: elder? the composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x0000b8 Epithet: Vicar of Tillingham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x00020f ...

Institute of Medicine (U.S.)

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Beadle, George W.

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George W. Beadle (b. 1841?), born in England, was a Union soldier during the American Civil War who served first in the 10th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, and then later in the 18th Independent Battery of the Ohio Light Artillery. After the war, he settled in Plainwell, Michigan. During the last year of the war, he corresponded heavily with Rachel Smith of Chattanooga, Tennessee, whom he married after the end of the war. From the guide to the George W. Beadle Papers, 1863-1890, (Western R...

Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC)

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Horowitz, Norman H. (Norman Harold), 1915-2005

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Biography Norman Harold Horowitz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1915, the eldest of three boys, and the son of an émigré businessman and Bostonian mother. Raised in the middle-class neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, he attended public elementary and secondary schools, where at the latter he was made valedictorian. In 1932, Horowitz entered the University of Pittsburgh after securing a scholarship. There he majored in zoology...

World Health Organization . Country Office in Pakistan

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Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)

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Iino, Tetsuo, 1928-

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National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

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Brief biographies of selected NIH Directors: Rolla E. Dyer directed the National Institutes of Health from 1942 to 1950. Specializing in infectious diseases, Dyer joined the Public Health Service in 1916. As NIH Director he was instrumental in the establishment of the Clinical Center, the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, and the National Institute of Mental Health. An international authority on nutrition and dietary deficiency disease, William H. Sebrell began...

Science and Technology Advisory Panel (STAP)

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Stocker, Bruce A. D.

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Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel (CNO?CEP)

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Zinder, Norton D.

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Lein, Joseph

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Federation of American Scientists

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The Federation of American Scientists, a federation of seven associations of scientists and engineers, was organized in 1946 for the purpose of promoting world peace, international control of atomic energy, and the proper use of science for general welfare. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., FAS sought to influence government policy and educate the public concerning the social implications of new knowledge in science. From the description of Records, 1945-1970 (inclusive). (Universit...

Delbruck, Max

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Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

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The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was established in 1901. It was the first institution in the United States devoted solely to bio-medical research. In 1958 the name was changed to the Rockefeller Institute; in 1965 the Institute became the Rockefeller University. From the description of Meningitis records, [ca. 1907-1911]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523442 The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded in 1901 i...

Yale University.

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Feigenbaum, Edward A.

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Computer scientist. Feigenbaum received his B.S., 1956, and his Ph.D., 1959, in electrical engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology. He completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the National Physics Laboratory and in 1960 went to the University of California, Berkeley, to teach in the School of Business Administration. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1965 in the Dept. of Computer Science; he served as Director of the Stanford Computation Center from 1965 to 1968 and as chairman of the Depar...

Morse, M. Larry

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Edwards, Philip R.

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American society for microbiology

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Shortliffe, Edward Hance.

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Risk Assessment and Management Commission (RAMC)

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Lederberg, Esther

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Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable

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Sonneborn, Tracy M.

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Davis, Bernard D.

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Klein, George.

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