Papers, 1917-1964.

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Papers, 1917-1964.

This collection consists chiefly of papers and correspondence relating to his work in developing vaccines for various viruses and bacteria, such as encephalitides, typhus, rickettsioses, poliomyelitis, meningococcus, and trachoma. Also includes materials on intraperitoneal protection tests, records of experiments on production of intranuclear inclusions by means of chemicals, results of work by Dr. Harold R. Cox on viruses, medical research during World War II, and materials relating to the Rockefeller Institute. There are also corrected proofs of "Viral Encephalitides" (Springfield, Ill., 1958).

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Wadsworth, Augustus B., 1872-1954.

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Russell, Frederick F. (Frederick Fuller), 1870-1960

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Russell as an early researcher into the inoculation of typhoid. He was assigned the duty of implementing an immunization program within the U.S. Army from 1910-1911. Following his military career he served as the director of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation continuing his public health research focusing on yellow fever. From the description of Frederick F. Russell Papers, 1898-1958. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 57202900 ...

Makower, Henryk

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Long, Perrin H. (Perrin Hamilton), 1899-1965

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Noguchi, Hideyo, 1876-1928

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Amoss, Harold L. (Harold Lindsay), 1886-1956

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Harold Lindsay Amoss was physician and associate and associate member at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 1914-1922. From the description of Papers, 1918-1922. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122439952 The pathologist Harold Lindsay Amoss was born in Cobb, Kentucky, on September 8, 1886. After receiving his BS (1905) and MS (1907) degrees at the University of Kentucky, he pursued both medical degree and doctorate at Ha...

Cox, H. R. (Harold Roxbee), 1902-1997

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Horstmann, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Millicent), 1911-

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Dorothy Millicent Horstmann, renowned for her contributions to the pathogenesis and control of viral infections, particularly poliomyelitis and rubella, was born in Spokane, Washington, on July 2, 1911. After her undergraduate and medical training at the University of California, San Francisco, she did clinical training at San Francisco County Hospital and Vanderbilt Hospital. As a Commonwealth Fund Fellow at the Yale University School of Medicine, she began work with John Rodman Paul, the direc...

Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940

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Zinsser (Columbia, M.D. 1903) was Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School from 1935 to 1940, chief of bacteriological services at Children's and Infants' Hospital, and consultant in bacteriology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Mass. His research included the development of a vaccine for typhus, work on the etiology of rheumatic fever, host response to syphilis, nature of the antigen-antibody reaction, the measurement of virus size, and studies ...

Olitsky, Peter K.

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Peter K. Olitsky was a pathologist. From the description of Papers, 1917-1964. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298201 From the guide to the Peter K. Olitsky papers, 1917-1964, 1917-1964, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Schlessinger, Walter.

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Webster, Leslie Tillotson, 1894-1943.

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Leslie Tillotson Webster was an epidemiologist and worked at the Rockefeller Institute from 1920 to 1943. From the description of Papers, 1909-1943. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616143 From the guide to the Leslie Tillotson Webster papers, 1909-1943, 1909-1943, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Beard, Joseph W., 1942-

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Sabin, Albert B. (Albert Bruce), 1906-

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Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral, live virus polio vaccine, began his career in biomedical research in 1926 while still a student at New York University where he received his M.D. degree. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1935-1939. From 1939 through 1969, Dr. Sabin was successively Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Research Pediatrics, and Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and The Children's Ho...

Yager, Robert Eugene, 1930-....

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Horsfall, Frank Lappin (1906-1971).

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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...

Morgan, Isabel

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Castelnuovo, Gina.

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Sadow, A. A.

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WAGENER, KURT H.

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Blumstein, Alexandre.

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Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957

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Gasser, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer), 1888-1963

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Mudd, Stuart, 1893-

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Sabin, Florence Rena, 1871-1953

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Givens, H. C.

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Jones, E. Elizabeth.

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Leung, K. D.

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Edsall, Geoffrey

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