Reminiscences of Jerr M. Levy: oral history, 1984.

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Reminiscences of Jerr M. Levy: oral history, 1984.

Childhood experiences and their effect on later professional decisions; undergraduate education; problems encountered at the University of Miami in obtaining a graduate assistant's position; move to California Institute of Technology and exposure to split-brain experiments; fascination with human split-brain experimentation; rotational studies of rats to dtermine sidedness; experiments determining regulation of sidedness; impact of Spencer funds; impressions of H. Thomas James; reasons for going to the University of Chicago and academic atmosphere there.

Transcript: 48 leaves.Tape: 2 cassettes.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Levy, Jerre, 1938-

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Psychologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Jerr M. Levy: oral history, 1984. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569978 ...

Kranz, Bella

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Spencer Foundation

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