Finding aid to the Dr. Francis O. Schmitt Oral history Collection papers, 1986 1986

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Finding aid to the Dr. Francis O. Schmitt Oral history Collection papers, 1986 1986

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The file contains a finding aid and catalog description to the Francis O. Schmitt Oral History Collection, papers, 1985-1986 (Manuscript Collection MC226) of the Institute Archives, MIT. The archivist requested a copy because Francis O. Schmitt (1903-) was a graduate (Ph.D. Physiology 1927) and zoology faculty member of Washington University who did research in physiology under Joseph Erlanger. Faculty members of Washington University such as Victor Hamburger and Hallowell Davis were interviewed concerning Schmitt's early career in St. Louis. The finding aid was prepared by Susan Mehrtens, director of the project, which was sponsored by the Acadia Institute.

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine.

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Schmitt, Francis Otto, 1903-1995

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Molecular biologist (1903-1995). Schmitt received his bachelor's degree in 1924 and his Ph.D. in physiology in 1927 from Washington University. He served on the faculty of the university's Zoology department from1929 to 1941, when he was recruited by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to head its microbiology department and where he established the first U.S. center for electron microscopy. In 1962 Schmitt established the Neurosciences Research Program at the American Academy of Arts and ...

Mehrtens, Susan E., 1945-

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The Jackson Laboratory, a biomedical and genetic research center in Bar Harbor, Maine, was founded by Clarence Cook Little in 1929. It is the world's leading non-profit supplier of genetically identical mice used in medical research. From the description of Jackson Laboratory oral history collection, 1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466331 Francis Otto Schmitt (1903-1995) earned his A.B (1924) from Washington University and Ph.D. (Physiology 1927) from Washington Univ...