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Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Carnegie Institution of Washington at Cold Spring Harbor Administrative Records

 Collection
Identifier: CIWA
Abstract This collection contains the administrative records of the directors of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Station for Experimental Evolution (1904-1921) and its successor, the Department of Genetics (1921-1962), and its final institution, The Genetics Research Unit (1962-1974), which was opened in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1904. These records document the history of a 20th scientific research center and the development of a modern organizational structure through...
Dates: 1898 - 1977

Eugenics Record Office Collection

 Collection
Identifier: ERO
Abstract

The Eugenics Record Office Collection was established in 1910 at the Carnegie Institute of Washington (Cold Spring Harbor, NY) and closed in 1939. succeeded by the Department of Genetics. The collection contains administrative papers, photographs, publications and supporting materials, family pedigree charts, and requests for information, as well as materials related to and accrued by superintendent Harry H. Laughlin.

Dates: 1907 - 2003

Alfred Day Hershey Collection

 Collection
Identifier: ADH
Abstract Documenting the personal life and professional activities of 1969 Nobelist Dr.A.D. Hershey, the Alfred Day Hershey Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence;academic publications, honors and awards; and records of research conducted at the Carnegie Institute ofWashington at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. It is divided into three record groups: Record Group I:Professional Papers, 1949-1997; Record Group II: Personal Papers, 1918-2000; and Record Group III:Photographs,...
Dates: 1918-2000

Barbara McClintock Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BMC
Abstract

The Barbara McClintock Collection consists of 10 series pertinent to the life of a world-renowned plant geneticist and Nobel prize winner. There are materials relevant to both her personal life as well as her scientific work. Within the series, you will find correspondence, published materials, photographs, slides, negatives, artifacts, and memorabilia.

Dates: 1907 - 2008

Evelyn Witkin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EMW
Abstract

The collection includes correspondence with scientific colleagues, her seminal work on the SOS response, and a collection of Witkin's reprints, as well as copies of Microbial Genetics Bulletin, a periodical that Witkin edited.

Dates: 1944 - 2016

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Photographs 4
Laurel Hollow (N.Y.) 3
Administrative Records 2
Bacteriophages 2
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Genetics 2
Meetings 2
Reprints 2
Washington (D.C.) 2
Accessions Registers 1
Administration 1
Albinos and albinism 1
American Breeders' Association 1
American Eugenics Society 1
Articles and Reprints 1
Audio Visual 1
Bacterial genetics 1
Biology Scholarships, fellowships, etc. 1
Blueprints 1
Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Genetics. 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Community relations 1
Connecticut Project 1
Corn 1
Corn—Genetics 1
Crossing over (Genetics) 1
DNA Repair 1
Diaries 1
Drosophila melanogaster 1
Employee Fringe Benefits 1
Employee Selection 1
Escherichia coli 1
Eugenics Advisory Committee 1
Film transparencies 1
Graduate students 1
Grant Proposals 1
Grants and funding 1
Great Depression 1
Heredity 1
Hill Folk 1
Laboratory Exhibitions 1
Laboratory Notebooks 1
Lantern slides 1
Leases 1
Ledgers (Account Books) 1
Manuscripts 1
Maps 1
Memorabilia 1
Memorandums 1
Minutes 1
Mutagenesis 1
New Haven (Conn.) 1
New Jersey (N.Y.) 1
New York 1
Nobel Prize Winners– United States 1
Nobel Prizes 1
Pamphlets 1
Pamphlets, monographs 1
Pedigree Charts 1
Penicillin--History 1
Personnel Records 1
Philanthropists 1
Plant biology 1
Plant genetics 1
Polyploidy 1
Prisons 1
Program Budgeting 1
Punched Cards 1
Reports 1
SOS Response 1
Saint Louis (Mo.) 1
Science Publishing 1
Science Study and teaching 1
Scrapbooks 1
Slides 1
Slides (Photographs) 1
Stockholm (Sweden) 1
Students, Foreign 1
Thoroughbred Horse 1
Trout 1
Wolf Foundation Prizes 1
Women Geneticists 1
Women Scientists 1
Women in Science 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
Yaphank, (N.Y.) 1
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