Kenneth C. Smithburn Papers, 1922-1974, 1938-1959 (bulk).

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Kenneth C. Smithburn Papers, 1922-1974, 1938-1959 (bulk).

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The papers document the career of Kenneth C. Smithburn in the identification and isolation of viruses, particularly the Yellow Fever virus in Africa. The papers also more broadly reflect the work of the Rockefeller Foundation in the field of international public health. Records include correspondence, experimental data, professional diaries, and printed materials. Correspondents include Alexander Haddow, Robert H. Kokernot, Albert B. Sabin, and Maurice Paul Weinbren.

6.4 linear feet (16 boxes).

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Rockefeller Foundation. Division of Medicine and Public Health

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Kokernot, Robert H.

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Rockefeller Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation was established in May 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, by act of the New York State Legislature, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world". From its earliest years, several separate organizations and divisions have carried on the Foundation's work in carefully selected fields. In 1913, the International Health Board (originally the International Health Commission) was formed in order to extend the work of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradi...

Smithburn, Kenneth C., 1904-1973.

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Research scientist Kenneth C. Smithburn (1904-73) received the B.S. (1926) and M.D. (1928) degrees from Indiana University. From 1930 to 1938, he served on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York (later known as The Rockefeller University). In 1939, he joined the Yellow Fever Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda, becoming Director in 1946. From 1953 to 1959, he ran a research center in Johannesburg, South Africa on Arthropod-borne viruses, jointly sponsored by th...

Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division

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Smithburn, Kenneth C.

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Haddow, A. (Alexander), 1907-

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Experimental pathologist working mainly in cancer research, not a physicist. However, his concerns for world peace, responsibility, and science generated correspondence, some of which is from physicists. He was also involved with the Medical Research Council Committee on Medical Aspects of Nuclear War. From the description of Papers, Ca. 1930s-ca. 1970s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77898586 ...

Sabin, Albert B. (Albert Bruce), 1906-

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Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral, live virus polio vaccine, began his career in biomedical research in 1926 while still a student at New York University where he received his M.D. degree. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1935-1939. From 1939 through 1969, Dr. Sabin was successively Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Research Pediatrics, and Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and The Children's Ho...