Papers, ca. 1893-1947.

Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947

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Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was an economist and professor of political economy at Yale University from 1898 to 1935. He specialized in monetary economics and in the application of mathematical techniques to the solution of economic problems. From the description of Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122314185 From the guide to the Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Metcalf, Maynard M. (Maynard Mayo), 1868-1940

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Osterud, Hjalmar Laurits, b. 1883.

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Conklin, Edward Grant, 1863-1952.

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Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich), 1887-1943.

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Geiser, Samuel Wood, 1890-1983

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John Ruggles Cotting (1778-1867) was a Congregationalist minister and geologist, and was appointed first Georgia State Geologist by Governor Gilmer in 1936-1940. "Samuel Wood Geiser, biologist and historian of science, son of Matthäus and Maria Ann Lucas (Wood) Geiser, was born at Independence, Iowa, on June 11, 1890. He attended Upper Iowa University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1914 and a master's degree in 1919, and Johns Hopkins University, where he was...

Brennemann, Joseph, 1872-1944

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Joseph Brennemann was born near Peru, Illinois. He earned a Ph.B. at the University of Michigan in 1895 and his M.D. from Northwestern University in 1900. His specialty was pediatrics. In 1921 Dr. Brennemann was appointed chief of staff at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Until his retirement from this position in 1941, Brennemann also taught at Rush Medical College and the University of Chicago School of Medicine. From the description of Joseph Brennemann letters, 1939-1943....

Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan), 1869-

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Burbank , Luther, 1849-1926

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Botanist, horticulturist, and naturalist. From the description of Luther Burbank papers, 1830-1989 (bulk 1880-1926). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981669 Luther Burbank began his work in horticulture in his birthplace, Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he raised seeds and vegetables for market. He moved to Santa Rosa, California in 1875 in order to pursue his work in a warmer climate. Burbank became world famous for his timesaving methods of plant breeding and grafting, esp...

Shull, George Harrison, 1874-1954

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George Harrison Shull (1874-1954) grew up on a farm in Clark County, Ohio. He graduated from Antioch in 1903 and went on to graduate school at the University of Chicago. He was appointed Botanical Assistant at the United States National Herbarium. He also worked at the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry as a Botanical Expert examining the flora and fauna of the Chesapeake Bay and Currituck Sound. He used what he collected for his PhD thesis. He then became interested in the statistical analysis of va...

Whitney, Leon F. (Leon Fradley), 1894-1973

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Leon Fradley Whitney (1894-1973), biologist and verterinarian, was the author of juvenile fiction and books on the care of pets. From the description of Leon Fradley Whitney papers, 1931, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702131625 Leon Fradley Whitney was a biologist and promoted sterilization in eugenics. From the description of Autobiography, [n.d.]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122409239 From the guide to the Leon ...

Cowdry, E.V. (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975

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Anatomist and Pathologist. Professor of Cytology, 1928-1941 and Professor of Anatomy 1941-1950 at Washington University, School of Medicine, Director of Research, Bernard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital 1939-1948. Director of Wernse Cancer Research Laboratory at Washington University, School of Medicine, 1950-1960. From the description of E. V. Cowdry papers, 1909-1975. 1909-1975. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 10650264 George Washington Corner worke...

Sonneborn, T. M. (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981

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Early geneticist whose early work with paramecium was critical to the discovery of genetic recombination. Sonneborn taught and conducted most of his important work at Indiana University, 1939-1981. In 1959 the National Academy of Science presented the Kimber Award for Genetics to Sonneborn. From the description of Sonneborn laboratory abstracts and papers, ca. 1931-1979. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 62198002 From the description of Sonneborn reprint collection, ...

Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940

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Professor of biology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. From the description of Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 645650881 Raymond Pearl was a biologist and statistician. He spent most of his academic career (1918-1940) at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was Professor of Biometry and Vital Statistics and Director of the Institute of Biological Research. He was founder of...

Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944

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Charles B. Davenport was a biologist and director of the Department of Genetics at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1904-1934). From the description of Papers, 1874-1944. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488735 Charles B. Davenport's influence and efforts at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, began in 1898 when he became the director of the summer school of the Biological Laboratory, a position he held until 1923. The lab was administered by...

Pomeroy, Fred Elmer, b. 1877.

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Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956

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Robert Mearns Yerkes was an animal psychologist; he became a member of the American Philosophical Society, 1936. From the guide to the Testament: the scientific way, n.d., n.d., (American Philosophical Society) 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) Psychologist. From the description o...

Jennings, H. S. (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947

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Herbert Spencer Jennings was a naturalist and geneticist. He taught botany and zoology at various universities in the United States and abroad. He specialized in research on the physiology of micro-organisms, animal behavior, and genetics. From the description of Diaries, 1903-1942. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440035 From the description of Papers, ca. 1893-1947. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122689452 ...

Goodnow, Frank J., 1859-1939

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Denver, Colorado architect. From the description of Architectural drawings, 19?? (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 54362833 Lawyer and political scientist. Taught at Columbia, 1884-1912. Constitutional Advisor to the Chinese Government, 1913-1914. President of The Johns Hopkins University, 1914-29. From the description of Frank Johnson Goodnow papers, 1880-1940. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 49310917 ...

Raffel, Daniel, b. 1899.

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Metz, Carl W., 1889-1975.

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Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) Cattell...

Korzybski, Alfred, 1879-1950

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Korzybski was born in Poland and later emigrated to the United States. He was the founder of the theory of general semantics, the study of the relations between language, thought, and behavior. From the description of Essays, 1923 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612750797 Polish-American philosopher and scientist. Alfred Habdank Korzybski is widely known for his system of "general semantics." From the description of...

Alexander, Jerome, 1876-

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Jerome Alexander (1876-1959) was the pre-eminent American scientist in the field of colloidal chemistry, the study of substances neither in suspension nor solution, which was pertinent to many other areas of chemistry. In addition to translating a seminal work in the field, Richard Zsigmondy's Colloids and the Ultra-Microscope, he wrote Colloid Chemistry (1919), and edited and contributed to Colloid Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical, the seven-volume standard work in the field. He also publis...

Blumer, Hebert, 1900- .

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Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956

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Frank Aydelotte, seventh President of Swarthmore College, was born on October 18, 1880 in Sullivan, Indiana; he was the first president of the College who was not a Quaker. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Indiana in 1900, and three years later received an M.A. from Harvard. He became a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Oxford University from 1905-1907. He then taught at University of Indiana from 1908-1915. Afterward he taught English Literature at M.I.T. where he worked until he ...

Mast, Samuel Ottmar, 1871-1947.

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Samuel Mast graduated from Michigan State Normal College and received a B.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 1899. In 1906 he earned a Ph. D. from Harvard University. He was a professor of biology (1899-1908) at Hope College before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in 1911. Mast is well known for his discovery of a unicellular organism, Chilomona Paramecium, which was used in cancer research in the 1940s. From the description of Papers, 1903-1981. (Joint Archi...

Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947

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A.B., University of Toronto, 1891. Instructor in zoology, University of Michigan, 1894-1899. Professor of Biology, John P. Girard Chair of Natural History, Vassar College, 1899-1900. Head of the Department of Embryology, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 1893-1907; assistant director, 1900-1908; director, 1908-1926; president, 1925-1942. Assistant professor of zoology and embryology, University of Chicago, 1900-1902; associate professor, 1902-1907; professor, 1907-1947; chairman of the...

Watson, John B. (John Broadus), 1878-1958

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Chen, T. T. (Tze Tuan), 1906- .

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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...

Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937

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American zoologist; officer in relief organizations in Europe during World War I. From the description of Vernon Lyman Kellogg papers, 1914-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868923 Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg was born in 1874 at Grand Island, Nebraska, and was educated at the University of California, earning a Ph.B. in 1900. She taught English at Miss Head's School in Berkeley, California from 1903 until 1907. During World War I, she participated in civilia...

Harrison, Ross G. (Ross Granville), 1870-1959

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Ross Granville Harrison was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on January 13, 1870. He graduated from Johns Hopkins (A.B., 1889; Ph.D., 1894) and the University of Bonn (M.D., 1899). He taught at Johns Hopkins (1896-1907) and at Yale University (1907-1959). Harrison conducted extensive scientific research in embryonic development and related fields, and produced several publications. At Yale, Harrison's administrative responsibilities included service as director of the Osborn Zoological Laborator...

Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964

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Deceased 1964. From the description of Oral history interview with Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1963, June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81360299 Physicist (mathematical physics and aeronautics). On faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1907-1917, department chair, 1917-1922; professor of vital statistics, School of Public Health, Harvard University, 1922-1945, and professor emeritus from 1945; president of Social Science Research Council, 1929-1931. From ...