Papers, 1938-1990.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1938-1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523752

Series I (11.5 linear ft.) contains correspondence with biochemists, chemists, geneticists, students, and publishers. The bulk of this series covers the 1960s to the 1970s. Among the topics covered in this series are: research on polyamines and nucleic acids; conferences; the publishing of journal articles; and participation in professional societies. There is correspondence concerning Cohen's affiliations with the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Cancer Society, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Upjohn Company. Also in this series is correspondence about Cohen's grants from the Commonwealth Fund and the National Institutes of Health. Correspondents include Thomas F. Anderson, Uriel Bachrach, Otto K. Behrens, Mirko Beljanski, Aaron Bendich, Seymour Benzer, Paul Berg, Ernest Borek, Jean Brachet, Samuel C. Bukantz, Erwin Chargaff, Bernard D. Davis, Max Delbruck, Jack J. Fox, Joseph S. Fruton, David Goldfarb, Alfred D. Hershey, Bernard L. Horecker, Elvin A. Kabat, Dusan Kanazir, Yvonne Khouvine, Arthur Kornberg, Max A. Lauffer, Joshua Lederberg, Marilyn R. Loeb, Jean Lucas-Lenard, Salvador E. Luria, Anna B. Macura, Jacques Monod, Linus Pauling, Frank M. Schabel, Jr., Tracy M. Sonneborn, Soloomon Spiegelman, Wendell M. Stanley, Lawrence L. Weed, Jean Weigle, and Gerard R. Wyatt. Series II (.75 linear ft.) contains clippings, announcements and programs for lectures, some syllabi for courses, grant applications to the National Institutes of Health, meeting minutes for the American Cancer Society, research reports to the Commonwealth Fund, and a small amount of information about Scientists and Engineers for Johnson. Also in this series is Cohen's bibliography and some biographical material on Cohen, including descriptions of his research projects. Series III (.5 linear ft.) contains abstracts, typescripts, and some lectures. Some of the works were done with students (e.g., Hazel Barner Leung) and colleagues (e.g., Thomas F. Anderson). Included among the works is a lecture on Erwin Chargaff's work that Cohen gave when Chargaff was presented with the Carl Neuberg Medal in 1958. Also in this series is a manuscript of comments that Cohen wrote about his published papers while looking over the laboratory notebooks that are now contained in Series IV and V. Series IV (7.0 linear ft.) contains laboratory notebooks, laboratory notes, and some manuscripts. Most of the works were done by students and laboratory assistants in the 1960s. The laboratory notebooks contain graphs, charts, photographs, and some test tubes. Subjects include polyamines, TYMV, bleomycin, ara-A, and adenine. Series V (5.5 linear ft.) contains laboratory notes, graphs, charts, photographs, and a few test tubes. Many of the experiments are from the 1940s and 1950s. The earliest material is "Thromboplastin (Towards Dissertation)" dated 1938-1941. Subjects for the experiments include phosphogluconate, chloroplasts, protoplasts, ara, TAU, RNA polymerase, and polyamines. Series VI (.25 linear ft.) contains photographs of Cohen in his laboratory, at conferences, at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and with Alfred D. Hershey. Also included are photographs of Cohen's students and photographs of experiment results (e.g., of chloroplasts).

25.5 linear ft.

American Philosophical Society Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6748770

American Philosophical Society Library

Related Entities

There are 37 Entities related to this resource.

University of Pennsylvania.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q63gvj (corporateBody)

The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...

Upjohn company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hm9z14 (corporateBody)

Kalamazoo, MI. From the description of Collection, ca.1895-1936. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122616395 ...

Weigle, Jean-Jacques

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68x1bbm (person)

Fruton, Joseph S. (Joseph Stewart), 1912-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd7fmt (person)

Joseph Stewart Fruton was born in 1912. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1931 and also earned his Ph.D. in 1934. Fruton served on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for ten years, before coming to Yale University in 1945. In 1950 Fruton was promoted to the rank of full professor and in 1957 was named the Eugene S. Higgins Professor of Biochemistry. He was named professor emeritus in 1982. Fruton died on July 29, 2007, in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

Borek, Ernest, 1911-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z94290 (person)

Anderson, Thomas Foxen, 1911-1991

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tf4m5z (person)

Thomas Foxen Anderson, a biophysicist and electron microscopist, was born on February 7, 1911 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. After attending high schools in Wisconsin, Illinois, and California and graduating from Glendale Union High School in California in 1928, he entered the California Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. in chemistry in 1932. At this early stage of his scientific career, Anderson began to display a remarkable technological ingenuity and a pench...

Macura, Anna B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gr4g76 (person)

Fox, Jack Jay, 1916-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z96xkp (person)

Davis, Bernard D., 1916-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6284xfq (person)

Bernard D. Davis, 1916-1994, AB, 1936, Harvard College; MD, 1940, Harvard Medical School, was a bacteriologist at Harvard Medical School from 1957 to 1984, and was named Adele Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology and Director of the Bacterial Physiology Unit in 1968. Davis's research focused on protein synthesis, aminoglycides, ribosomes and protein transport; he also conducted innovative gene studies. From the description of Papers, 1960-1993. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Goldfarb, David, 1948-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gm91zr (person)

Lucas-Lenard, Jean.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk5238 (person)

Beljanski, Mirko.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d585h3 (person)

Commonwealth Fund.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tf3s7j (corporateBody)

The Commonwealth Fund was established in 1918 with an endowment of ten million dollars from Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness (nee Anna M. Richardson).Its charter was broad: "to do something for the welfare of mankind." TheFund's earliest activities were directed towards supporting the American Relief Administration in its post-war program of civilian relief in Austria and Eastern Europe. Edward Harkness, who led the Fund from 1918 to 1940, encouraged the development of programs in child welfare, child g...

Weed, Lawrence L.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt1bsh (person)

Spiegelman, Solomon, 1914-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qw15pq (person)

Chargaff, Erwin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hf01t4 (person)

Erwin Chargaff is a biochemist who discovered the base-pairing regularities or "complementarity relationships" in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). He also disproved the tetranucleotide hypothesis; demonstrated the existence of a large number of different DNA species; and created the first descriptions of hypochromicity, hyperchromicity, and the denaturation of a DNA. In addition, he did research on blood coagulation, lipids and lipoproteins, metabolism of amino acids and inositol, and biosynthesis o...

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6035vfx (corporateBody)

Delbrück, M. (Max), 1850-1919

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qv4vfn (person)

Kornberg, Arthur, 1918-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6st8b7j (person)

Biochemistry professor at Stanford University since 1959, focusing on enzymatic studies of DNA replication. Kornberg was Chief of Enzymes and Metabolics at the National Institute of Health from 1947 to 1953, Chief of the Department of Microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine from 1953 to 1959 and Chairman of Stanford's Department of Biochemistry from 1959 to 1969. In 1959, Kornberg received a Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for pioneering the synthesis of DNA in the la...

Bukantz, Samuel C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj14zw (person)

Horecker, Bernard L. (Bernard Leonard), 1914-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xh1rkg (person)

Bachrach, Uriel.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60650pr (person)

Stanley, Wendell M. (Wendell Meredith), 1904-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z622x8 (person)

Biography Wendell Meredith Stanley was born in Ridgeville, Indiana on August 16, 1904. His parents, James G. and Claire (Plessinger) Stanley, published two local newspapers, the Ridgeville News and the Union City Eagle. When his father died in 1920, the Stanleys moved to Richmond, Indiana where Wendell graduated from Richmond High School in 1922. He attended Earlham College, where an ancestor had donated ground for the college with the provis...

Loeb, Marilyn Rosenthal, 1930-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z65bq1 (person)

Kanazir, Dus̆an, 1921-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv941p (person)

Cohen, Seymour S. (Seymour Stanley), 1917-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv1sxk (person)

Seymour S. Cohen is a biochemist whose work on bacterial viruses, begun in 1945, was the first systematic exploration of the biochemistry of virus-infected cells and of how viruses multiply. Other research during his career included delineating the phenomenon of thymineless death; developing derivatives of ara-A compound; working on RNA synthesis; studying the effects of polyamines on metabolic systems; and studying plant viruses (including viral cations). Much of his research has been useful in...

American Association for Cancer Research. Meeting

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b89hf4 (corporateBody)

Berg, Paul, 1926-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69w1x78 (person)

Biochemistry Professor at Stanford University since 1960, Berg received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1980 for "fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids with particular regard to recombinant DNA." He was appointed Director of Stanford's Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine in 1984. In 1967, Berg, working at the Salk Institute, redirected his study of protein synthesis from bacterial cells to tumor viruses. By 1970, this research had led Berg and his associates to conclude...

Bendich, Aaron, 1917-1979.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vj36b6 (person)

Khouvine, Yvonne, d1981.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn8r7p (person)

Behrens, Otto Karl, 1911-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67t56rh (person)

American cancer society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vm81zs (corporateBody)

Lauffer, Max A. (Max Augustus), 1914-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61p2mjd (person)

Benzer, Seymour

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pv75mf (person)

Wyatt, Gerard Robert, 1925-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q02tkn (person)

Kabat, Elvin A. (Elvin Abraham), 1914-2000

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z328n4 (person)

Kabat (b. 1914), an immunochemist and biochemist, was a professor of bacteriology, microbiology, and human genetics and development at Columbia University from 1946-1985. From the description of Papers, 1938-1983. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 31357627 ...

Brachet, J. (Jean), 1909-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h499nh (person)