Papers, 1827, 1835, 1848-1978 (inclusive), 1910-1946 (bulk)

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Papers, 1827, 1835, 1848-1978 (inclusive), 1910-1946 (bulk)

The collection contains Forbes' correspondence and related records on neurophysiology, navigation, and a small quantity on other scientific and personal matters. Also includes a considerable amount of correspondence, reports, notes, documents, journals, logs, maps, photographs, data, and printed items concerning Forbes' aerial mapping expeditions and navigational projects, both on his own and during his wartime service. The small amount of biographical material contains his school notebooks, 1898-1910, from Milton Academy and Harvard; correspondence, lecture notes, course notebook, lantern slides, and other teaching materials, 1910-1958, from Harvard Medical School; some personal correspondence with individuals, including his cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt, and organizations and clubs.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, Baron, 1889-1977

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Williams, Horatio Burton, 1877-1955.

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Fulton, John F. (John Farquhar), 1899-1960

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John Farquhar Fulton was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 1, 1899. He received B.S. and M.D. degrees from Harvard, and a M.A. and D. Phil. from Oxford. He was appointed Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale in 1929 and in 1951 became the first Sterling professor of the history of medicine. During World War II, Fulton served on the National Research Council. He was an authority on comparative physiology of the primate brain, neurophysiology, aviation medicine, and medical history. He co...

Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945

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Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard, A.B. 1896; A.M. 1897; M.D. 1900; Honorary Sc.D. 1937) taught physiology at Harvard and was George Higginson Professor of Physiology and Chairman of the Department. He was innovative in both research and medical education. In 1900 he adapted the case system for teaching medicine. His scientific research includes studies on the digestive tract and experiments on the denervated heart and his contributions include the concept of homeostasis and the discovery of the t...

Wald, George, 1906-1997

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George David Wald, 1906-1997, was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard University, and a promoter ofprogressive political and social causes. From the description of Papers of George Wald, 1927-1996. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77065767 Educator, biochemist. From the description of Reminiscences of George Wald : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741205 ...

Eccles, John C. (John Carew), 1903-1997

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Neuroscientist, received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1963. From the description of Papers of John Eccles, 1911-1997 [manuscript]. 1911-1997. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225831529 ...

Forbes, Alexander, 1882-1965

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Forbes graduated from Harvard in 1904 and taught physiology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alexander Forbes, ca. 1924. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 236232211 Alexander Forbes, 1882-1965, M.D., 1910, Harvard Medical School; was Professor of Physiology at Harvard Medical School and a pioneer in the development of electrophysiology. He taught at Harvard Medical School from 1910 to 1948. In addition to his medical research on the function of the centr...

United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Davis, Hallowell, 1896-1992

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Physiologist and otolaryngologist (1896-1992). Graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1922, and served on its faculty from 1923 to 1946. Director, Central Institute for the Deaf (1946-1965). Research professor of otolaryngology (1946-1965) and professor of physiology (1946-1965), Washington University School of Medicine. From the description of Oral history interview with Hallowell Davis, 1977. 1977. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 61332021 Da...

Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880

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Physician, chemist, and geologist. From the description of Papers of Charles T. Jackson, 1829-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066585 Physician and chemist. From the description of Papers, 1871, July 21-Aug. 9, Boston. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35149330 ...

Milton Academy (Milton, Mass.)

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Gerard, R. W. (Ralph Waldo), 1900-1974

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Ralph Waldo Gerard was a neurophysiologist, behavioral scientist, and academic known for his wide-ranging work on the nervous system, nerve metabolism, psychopharmacology, and biological bases of schizophrenia. He was born in 1900 and studied chemistry and physiology in Chicago. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and the University of Michigan. From 1963 to 1970 he served as Professor of Biological Sciences and Dean of the Graduate Division at the Univer...

Redfield, Alfred C. (Alfred Clarence), 1890-1983

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Alfred C. Redfield taught physiology at the Harvard Medical School as an instructor from 1917-1919 and as assistant professor from 1921-1930. In 1931 he was appointed professor of physiology and he began teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Redfield was director of the Biological Laboratories at Harvard from 1934-1935. He served as Chairman of the Division of Biology from 1934-1938. He was associate director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1942-1956 and was known for hi...

Harvard Medical School. Dept. of Physiology.

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Cobb, Stanley, 1887-1968

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Stanley Cobb, 1887-1968, MD, 1914, Harvard Medical School, was Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School; Cobb taught neurology at Harvard Medical School from 1919 to 1954. Cobb served as Chief of the Neurology Service at Boston City Hospital from 1925 until 1934 when he was appointed Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, a position he held until his retirement in 1954. During a trip to Europe, 1924-1925, as a Rockefeller Fellow, he made a wide range of profe...

Sherrington, Charles Scott, Sir, 1857-1952

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McCouch, Grayson Prevost, 1888-

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

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Physiologist (1888-1963). Professor of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, 1921-1931. Professor of Physiology and head of the Medical Department, Cornell University, 1931-1935. Director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1935-1953. Gasser and Joseph Erlanger were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944. From the description of Herbert S. Gasser papers, 1914-1964. 1914-1964. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id:...