Papers, 1950-1970.

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Papers, 1950-1970.

Collection consists of letters, reports, etc. of Hollaender. Most of the collection concerns his work on several international study groups looking into the effects of atomic radiation on human behavior, specifically, International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Atomic Radiation, United Nations Scientific Committee on Atomic Radiation, and the World Health Organization.

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Dobzhansky, Theodosius, 1900-1975

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Geneticist. From the description of Reminiscences of Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737375 Theodosius Dobzhansky was a geneticist and a principal spokesman for Neo-Darwinism. He wrote "Genetics and the Origin of Species" (1937) and is considered one of the most influential biologists of our time. From the description of Papers, ca. 1917-1975. (American Philosophical So...

World Health Organization . Country Office in Pakistan

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Hollaender, Alexander, 1898-1986

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Hollaender (1898-1986). Biologist (biophysics, radiation biology, and chemical matagenesis) and Director of the Division of Biology at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1946 to 1966. From the description of Addition to papers, 1935-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86123380 Alexander Hollaender is a geneticist who served as director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1946 to 1966. From the description of Papers, 1950-1970...

United Nations. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

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International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy

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Glass, Bentley, 1906-2005

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Born in Laichowfu, Shantung, China, January 17, 1906, and educated at Baylor (AB, 1926; MA, 1929; LLD, 1958) and the University of Texas (PhD, 1932). Full name: Hiram Bentley Glass. Fellow in genetics at the National Research Council, the University of Oslo, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut, and the University of Missouri, 1932-1934; before landing as an instructor at Stephens College (1934-1938); Goucher College (1938-1948), and Johns Hopkins University (1948-1965). ...

Plough, Harold Henry, 1892- .

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Plough was born on April 5, 1892 in New York City. He attended Amherst College, graduating in 1913, and went on to study at Columbia, receiving his MA in 1915, and his PhD in 1917. After serving as a fellow at Columbia for a year, Plough returned to Amherst where he joined the biology department, and continued to serve as a professor at Amherst until his retirement in 1959. Plough led a distinguished career as a geneticist, publishing more than 30 papers on technical subjects in biology over his...

Emerson, Sterling D.

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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...

Sturtevant, A.H. (Alfred Henry), 1891-1970

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Kaplan, Martin M

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Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989

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Chemist, University president. From the description of Reminiscences of George Wells Beadle : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608221 George Wells Beadle, professor, university administrator. From the guide to the Beadle, George Wells. Papers, 1908-1981, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.) Chancellor, University of...

Campbell, Charles I.

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Bronk, Detlev W. (Detlev Wulf), 1897-1975

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Scientist and educator, Detlev W. Bronk was born in New York City in 1897. He received the B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1920, the M.S. in physics in 1922, and the Ph.D. in physics and physiology, both from the University of Michigan. From 1928 to 1929, as a Fellow of the National Research Council, he conducted studies with English scientists E.D. Adrian and A. V. Hill on the mode of discharge of impulses by motor nerve cells and shed light on many problems of sensory physiology a...

Neel, James V. (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000

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Papers of James V. Neel, pioneering human population geneticist and professor in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School. Curt Stern's first graduate student at the University of Rochester, and a post-doctoral student under Theodosius Dobzhansky, Neel began his career as a Drosophila geneticist, but after taking his first professional appointment as an assistant professor at Dartmouth, decided to alter his course into human genetics. Reasoning that he...

Oak Ridge national laboratory

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National Academy of Sciences, (U.S.). Committee on Atomic Radiation.

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Muller, H. J. (Hermann Joseph), 1890-1967

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) H.J. Muller established the field of production of genetic mutations through x-ray irradiation. He received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1946. From the description of [Collected reprints of H.J. Muller] 1916-1968. (Houston Academy of Medicine, Texas M...