Papers, 1900-1954.

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Papers, 1900-1954.

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Consists of one box of correspondence (supplemented by clippings) written to biologist and author Maurice Ernest (1872-1955) by various individuals. The contents of these letters, which span the period between 1900 and 1954, reflect Ernest's interests in homeopathy and longevity studies, as well as his involvement in international relations as a press correspondent from 1897-1909. His correspondents included Nobel Prize winners such as Ralph Angell, Frederick Hopkins, Philip Noel-Baker, William Ramsay and John Rayleigh, as well as numerous physicians, scientists, and newspaper editors.

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Ernest, Maurice, 1872-1955.

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Biologist and author. Born in 1872 in Austria. Educated in Paris and Vienna, studying medicine and law. London correspondence for Austrian, Swedish, and American dailies from 1897 to 1909. Founded Centenarian Club, 1928. Died in 1955. From the description of Papers, 1900-1954. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 45478838 ...

Ramsay, William, 1852-1916

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Chemist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Correspondence with Lord Rayleigh about argon, 1887-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003974 Professor of General Chemistry at University College London, 1887-1912. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1870-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82743733 English scientist. Winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1904. Discoverer of argon, helium, neon, krypton. ...

Noel-Baker, Philip, 1889-1982

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Philip Noel-Baker (1889-1982) was born in London and educated at Ackworth and Bootham Schools and King's College, Cambridge. A conscientious objector, he was actively opposed to military preparations whilst at University and served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit on the Western Front from Sep. 1914 and with the Red Cross on the Italian Front from 1915 to 1918. He followed a political career after the First World War, serving in the League of Nations section at the Foriegn Office from 1918. ...

Angell, Norman, 1874-1967

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British political scientist. From the description of Letter : New York, N.Y., to [Georges] Schreiber, [ca. 1935]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122597878 Author, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Sir Norman Angell : oral history, 1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722800 Writer, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate. ...

Rayleigh, John William Strutt, baron, 1842-1919

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John William Strutt, the Third Baron Rayleigh, an English physicist, was born in Terling, Essex, in 1842. He attended Cambridge University and in 1879 became professor of experimental physics there and director of its Cavendish Laboratory until 1884. He later was on the faculty at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, became chancellor of Cambridge University, and was a founder of the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington, England. Strutt, who with Lord William Ramsey, discovered the first...

Hopkins, Frederick Gowland, Sir, 1861-1947

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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947), biochemist; educated at City of London School; articled to consulting analyst; studied chemistry at South Kensington and University College; assistant to (Sir) Thomas Stevenson; entered Guy's Hospital, 1888; B.Sc., London, 1890; qualified, 1894; assistant in physiology department, 1894-1898; lecturer on chemical physiology, Cambridge, 1898; reader, 1902; praelector in biochemistry, Trinity College 1910-1921; professor of biochemistry, 1914; Sir William ...