Wyndham Miles NIH Oral History Collection, 1962-1973.

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Wyndham Miles NIH Oral History Collection, 1962-1973.

The collection contains 74 interviews with significant figures in the early history and development of the NIH. Each interviewee has at minimum an interview abstract and in most every case, also biographical information such as a curriculum vitae, list of publications, obituary, and clippings from newspapers, NIH publications, or other printed sources. Full transcriptions of interviews exists for many persons. Each entry in the finding aid contains a note as to whether an abstract or transcript exists for that person. Two extra tapes are included: James Shannon's farewell address to NIH; a Wallace P. Rowe Rockefeller Awards speech.

5.6 linear feet, (12 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7644076

National Library of Medicine

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Miles, Wyndham D., 1916-

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Wyndham Miles was educated at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy but his antiquarian leanings led to his interest in the study of the history of chemistry and his passion for collecting significant historical texts. He was employed as a science historian at both the Army Chemical Corps and the National Archives. He is an author, editor, past president of the A.C.S. Division of the History of Chemistry and the winner of its Dexter Award in 1971. From the description of Williams - Mi...

National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

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Brief biographies of selected NIH Directors: Rolla E. Dyer directed the National Institutes of Health from 1942 to 1950. Specializing in infectious diseases, Dyer joined the Public Health Service in 1916. As NIH Director he was instrumental in the establishment of the Clinical Center, the National Heart Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, and the National Institute of Mental Health. An international authority on nutrition and dietary deficiency disease, William H. Sebrell began...