Cyrus P. Barnum papers 1955-1965

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Cyrus P. Barnum papers 1955-1965

Collection contains the papers of Cyrus P. Barnum, Jr., professor of biochemistry in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota.

3 boxes (3.0 cubic feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6618857

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University of Minnesota. Medical School

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The 1851 territorial legislative act establishing the University of Minnesota provided for a Department of Medicine. This department, as originally instituted, was not an educational department but rather a credentialing board that provided examinations and conferred degrees upon physicians who had learned to practice medicine by studying with a preceptor. In April 1887, Percy Millard, Charles Hewitt, D. Hand, and President Cyrus Northrop petitioned the Board of Regents to abolish t...

Barnum, Cyrus P., 1914-1965.

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Cyrus Barnum, B.A. (1936), Ph.D. (1940) University of Minnesota. Professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota; specialized in the relationship between cancer and the formation of nucleic acid in the body. Cyrus Paine Barnum, Jr. was born on May 18, 1914 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned his B.A. in chemistry in 1936 and his Ph.D. in physiological chemistry in 1940, both from the University of Minnesota. After he was awarded his Ph.D., Dr. Barnum was a rese...