Alfred E. Cohn papers, Rockefeller University Faculty, circa 1896-1980

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made tremendous contributions to his field, transforming accepted notions of atomic structure, helping to develop nuclear fission, and advocating for international cooperation in crafting responsible nuclear policy. Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1885 into a family that encouraged his academic pursuits. Christian Bohr, his father, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Bohr credited his father for awakening hi...

Erskine, John, 1879-1951

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Epithet: Reverend; DD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001087.0x000214 Title: 9th Earl of Mar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001087.0x000219 John Erskine, educator, writer and musician, was born in New York on October 5, 1879. He received an A.B. in 1900, an A.M. in 1901, a Ph.D. in 1903 and an LL.D. in 1929 from Columbia Univ...

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago.

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Joint Distribution Committee (New York, N.Y.)

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Singer, Charles, 1876-1960

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Epithet: historian of science British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0000bd Historian of science and medicine. From the description of Letter, 1921, Oct. 25 : Highgate Village [England] to Sir D'Arcy. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31821800 George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington C...

Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979

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Jean Stafford was an American author, best known for her realistic and sublimely crafted short stories. Much of her fiction invoked classical literary themes, but viewed them through the perspective of an alienated, 20th century woman. Many of her stories reflected her own tumultuous, often melodramatic personal life. From the description of Jean Stafford correspondence with Henry W. Johnstone, 1969. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 55081876 Jea...

Robinson, George Canby, 1878-1960

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George Canby Robinson (b. 1878) received his A. B. (1899) and M.D. (1903) from Johns Hopkins University and did post-graduate work at Munich (1908-9), From 1903-1912, he held positions at Cornell, Pennsylvania Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, and the Rockefeller Institute. In 1913, he joined the faculty and administration of Washington University School of Medicine, serving as: associate professor of internal medicine (1913-1920), and acting dean (1917-1918) and dean (1919-192...

Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars

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Cohn, Alfred E. (Alfred Einstein), 1879-1957

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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) Alfred ...

Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971

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Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944

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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947

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Whitehead received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1926 and taught philosophy at Harvard. Guy Emerson was a banker. From the guide to the Alfred North Whitehead letters to Guy Emerson, 1944-1947., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Whitehead received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1926 and taught philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alfred North Whitehead, 1924-1945 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCa...

Asia Institute, Hague, Netherlands

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Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959

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Abraham Flexner was an educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122473834 Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737398 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, [195-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat r...

American society for clinical investigation

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Established in 1908 as the American Society for the Advancement of Clinical Investigation; name was changed in 1916 to the present name. Organized for the purpose of encouraging medical research by physicians engaged in medical practice. From the description of American Society for Clinical Investigation records, 1907-1977. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 50124657 The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) was organized in 1908 as...

McLean, Franklin C. (Franklin Chambers), 1888-

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Medical educator, administrator, and physiologist. Born 1888. S.B., University of Chicago, 1907; M.S. in pharmacology, 1912; Ph. D. in physiology, 1915. M.D., Rush Medical College, 1910. Director, Peking Union Medical College, 1916. Chairman, Department of Medicine and Director, University Clinics, University of Chicago, 1923-1932. Professor, Department of Physiology, 1933-1965. Died 1968. From the description of Papers, 1881-1968. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id:...

Murray, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1893-1988

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Henry A. Murray (1893-1988) American psychologist and Harvard professor, was a pioneer in the development of personality theory. He was professor of Clinical Psychology at Harvard from 1927 until his retirement in 1962. He was also a central figure in the Department of Social Relations, which existed from 1946 to 1972, and a notable member of the Melville Society. From the description of Papers of Henry A. Murray, 1925-1988 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76977...

Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 1866-1945

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Dr. Jelliffe was a former president of the American Neurological Association, the managing editor of The journal of nervous and mental disease, and the author of many works connected with psychology and medicine and psychiatry. From the description of Smith Ely Jelliffe collection on Julien Green, 1932-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864615 Psychoanalyst. From the description of Papers, 1876-1937, 1920-1937 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155493582 ...

Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955

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Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Mark Van Doren and his wife, Dorothy Van Doren. From the description of Letters, 1965-1978, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155877479 Mark Van Doren was an American author, scholar, and educator. He is probably best remembered for his long tenure as Columbia professor, where he was noted for his inspired Humanities courses and respect for students. His poetry was meticulously well-crafted and gr...

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997)

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Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950

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Political scientist and educator. From the description of Letter of Harold Joseph Laski, 1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014835 Harold J. Laski was a political scientist and socialist, born in Manchester England. He studied at Oxford, and lectured at US universities before joining the London School of Economics (1920). He was chairman of the Labour Party (1945-6). His political philosophy was Marxism. His books, included Authority in the Modern State (1919), A Grammar...

Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948

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American historian and educator From the guide to the Charles Austin Beard letters, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Historian, political scientist. From the description of Austin Charles Beard letters, 1929-1939. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465279213 Charles Austin Beard was born in 1874 and died in 1948. He was a political science professor and historian at Columbia Univer...

Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946

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Simon Flexner was a physician, administrator, professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1935). From the description of Papers, 1891-1946. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122535412 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 d...

White, Paul Dudley, 1886-1973

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White (1886-1973) (Harvard, M.D. 1911) was clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, 1940-1950, and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass., 1911-1950. One of the early specialists in cardiology, White introduced the first electrocardiograph to Boston in 1914, and was one of the three physicians after whom the W.P.W. Syndrome was named. White's book Heart Disease (1931) established his reputation as a leading cardiologist. From the description ...

Macleish, Archibald

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...

Binger, Carl (Carl Alfred Lanning), 1889-1976

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Murrow, Edward R. (Edward Roscoe), 1908-1965

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965), born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. After the war, in December 1945 Murrow an offer to become a vice president of the CBS network and head o...

Lewis, Thomas, Sir, 1881-1945

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China Medical Board of New York

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The board originally provided support for the Peking Union Medical College, but later extended its efforts to all countries in Asia. It provided grants for medical and nursing schools for visiting professorships, fellowships, books and journals for medical libraries, and equipment for laboratories. From the description of Records of the China Medical Board of New York, 1934-1962 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702148577 The China Medical Boar...

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

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The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was established in 1901. It was the first institution in the United States devoted solely to bio-medical research. In 1958 the name was changed to the Rockefeller Institute; in 1965 the Institute became the Rockefeller University. From the description of Meningitis records, [ca. 1907-1911]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523442 The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded in 1901 i...

Landsteiner, Karl, 1868-1943

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Austrian American immunologist and pathologist credited with discovering the major blood groups and the ABO system of blood typing. Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1930. From the description of Reprints of scientific writings, 1918-1979. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 57585118 Born in Vienna, Karl Landsteiner obtained his medical training at the University of Vienna and embarked on a career of pathology and immunology. He joined the R...