New Yorker cartoon: “If you were to boil your book down to a few words, what would be its message?”
Father's Ph.D. Dissertation.
Photograph of plaster bust of Mother, approximately 1926.
Baby Book.
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First Story Book, illustrated by father.
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Report from Manumit School.
Junior High School valdictorian.
Academic interests.
Bay Ridge High School records, awards; diploma; college entrance diploma.
Arista Society: election as a junior.
Los Cuatro Generales.
Letter of recommendation from High School principal.
New York State Regents' Scholarship.
Correspondence and background, Miss Mary F. Lindsley.
Reunion (February 25, 1989), as described in PerspectivesMarch 16, 1989.
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Photographs: Dr. Donald D. Mossman, Dr. Dorothea Mossman.
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Skit following Qualitative Analysis course.
Hunter Memoir by Bel Kaufman (Nobel Laureate alumni of Hunter College).
Classmate, Gertrude B. Elion, wins Nobel Prize.
Phi Beta Kappa election letter.
Garvan Fellowship Award, New York Times clipping B.A. cum laude. June 1937.
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Maurice B. Visscher portrait.
Studio portrait CMS as graduate student.
J.F. McClendon to Alan Hemingway.
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“Millard Hall” prototype, e.g., lights on at all hours.
Obituary, Cyrus P. Barnum.
M.B. Visscher, biographies. Minnesota Medical Bulletin, w. 1977.
The Physiologist. February 1977.
Request from Professor Horace Davenport, University of Michigan, for data on MBV to supplement the Biographical Memoir he was commissioned to write by the National Academy of Sciences (December 26, 1988).
My comments of January 7, 1989.
Davenport's response.
Cardiac surgeons trained jointly by Visscher (Physiology) and Owen Wangensteen (Surgery), University of Minnesota.
“Our Academic Lineage.”
Part 1) Program, Society for the study of Internal Secretions. 1940.
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Part 2) Program, Endocrine Society. June 1988.
Part 3) “The Endocrine Society: Origin, Organization, and Institutions,” by A.E. Wilhelmi.
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Part 1) M.S. Thesis.
Part 2) M.S. record transcript.
Part 3) M.S. Commencement Exercises.
Part 4. M.S. diploma.
Part 1) Ph.D. Preliminary oral examination committee.
Part 2) Ph.D. final examination committee.
Part 3) Ph.D. Diploma.
Part 1) Ph.D. Dissertation.
Part 2) “Dissertation” (poem).
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Worcester Foundation for Experimental biology. 1945-1953
Photograph of television spot with Helen Hayes and Directors. 1953.
Composition of the Foundation as it was dedicated in 1945.
Descriptive reprint from Industry. December 1945.
Supplements 1-3: Later summaries of the nature of the Foundation.
Supplement 4: N.W. Pirie, an early member (colleague at the Worcester Foundation).
Part 1) Letter of invitation to the Foundation. December 21, 1944.
Part 2) Tufts University appointment without salary. May 14, 1946.
Szego, C.M. “Steroid-Protein Binding: from Circulating Blood to Target Cell Nucleus.” Gynecologic investigation (vol.7). 1976.
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Part 1) Pictures, Gregory Pincus; Pincus with John Rock.
Part 2) Obituary, telegram and letter. Dr. Pincus. August 1967.
Part 3) Hudson Hoagland 75th birthday fundraiser; honorary degrees to Mary Calderone and M. C. Chang; Pincus Memorial Lectures (November 1974), including the one by CMS.
Parts 4a-d) International Steroid Conference at the Worcester Foundation (June 1953); CMS participating. Newspaper coverage.
Part 5) Letter, Gregory Pincus to Sidney Roberts. May 8, 1965.
Part 6) My brother's clarification.
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Parts 1-2) M.C. Chang, credentials and family.
Memorandum to Tom Slick.
Portrait of Professor Edwin J. Cohn.
Part 1) Letter, J.T. Edsall. March 18, 1967.
Part 2) Obituary by Professor Edsall of Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nature 304 (vol.409). 1986.
Part 3) Obituary by Edsall of Carl F. Cori, American Philosophical Society Yearbook. 1985.
Paul Ehrlich: “The receptor concept, primary formulation.”
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The Journal of steroid biochemistry (vol.25, no.2). August 1986. Table of Contents.
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Background to comments on Dr. Percy Julian re first “Laurentian” Hormone Conference.
Photographs of some scientist colleagues met at the Laurentian Hormone Conferences: Roland K. Meyer, William Fishman, Ian Bush, Saul Cohen, Evelyn Anderson, Paul Munson.
Letter from Yale University tendering job.
Abraham White: portrait, reprinted from Biographical Memoirs (vol.55). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. 1985.
“Thymic hormones.”
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Discussion of Dr. Louis Levin's paper at Laurentian Hormone Conference. 1951.
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Clipping illustrating current interest in growth hormone as a fat-mobilizing, protein (muscle)-sparing substance.
Part 1) Leo T. Samuels. Obituary.
Part 2) Leo T. Samuels. Memorial.
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Part 1) Dolores Drive-in Restaurant: Newsclipping, Los Angeles Times. May 28, 1980.
Part 2) View of Westwood village. 1953. Ibid. July 5, 1987.
Part 3) Early photograph of UCLA campus, reproduced in 1983 UCLA catalog.
Part 4. Documentation that Bratskeller was indeed formerly a Ralphs supermarket, Los Angeles Times. June 23, 1988.
Part 1) Commemoration of 25th anniversary of founding of the Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Part 2) Naming of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library building.
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Part 1) Portrait, Harry J. Deuel, Jr.
Part 2) Photograph, Roslyn Alfin-Slater.
Part 3) Obituary, Max S. Dunn.
Part 4. Obituary, Anthonie Van Harreveld.
Framed photograph, Boris Krichesky, on LS 4203 wall.
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Bound reprints, Boris Krichesky.
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Portrait, H.W. Magoun.
Newsclippings, James A. Halstead and Anna Roosevelt Halstead.
Reminiscences of members of the Department of Zoology and other colleagues, concluding with obituary, Raymond B. Cowles, Nature (vol.261, p.441). 1976.
Reminiscences of Bennet M. Allen's life and work. Brain Research Institute Bulletin. Fall 1981.
Part 1) Obituary, Bennet M. Allen; In Memoriam, University of California. 1965.
Part 2) Bound reprints, Bennet M. Allen.
Obituary, Elmer Belt.
Memorial service, Olga Bors; news clipping, Ernest Bors; letter of acknowledgment from latter.
Photograph on occasion of acquisition of the 100,000th volume of the Biomedical Library.
Julian and Joanne Ganz, newsclipping.
UCLA Weekly Calendar. November 15, 1951.
UCLA Weekly Calendar. November 30, 1952.
News releases re plasma protein carriers of steroid hormones.
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Inaugural Ceremony, UCLA Medical Center. November 2, 1951.
Early history of the UCLA Medical School in International Medical Digest. September 1969.
Hippocratic Oath Ceremony, first medical class. 1955.
Part 1) “Under the Cloud; the Decades of Nuclear Testing,” by Richard L. Miller. Book Review Section, Los Angeles Times. September 28, 1986.
Part 2) The UCLA Reactor. Daily Bruin. September 30, 1986.
Part 1) Ciba Award Citation, Endocrinology (vol.53, pp.120-121). 1953.
Part 2) Announcement in University Buleltin. June 29, 1953.
Part 3) Note from Dean Paul Dodd and response.
Part 4. Interview, Los Angeles Times.
Part 5) Interview, Daily Bruin. October 2, 1953.
“Some Nonhydrolytic Constituents Sequestered in Primary Lysosomes.”
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Some minimum examples of research memoranda, distribution of research problems among the members of the group (designated by initials), and indications of the interrelations among the several otherwise independent problems.
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Part 1) Précis of one “10-year program.”
Part 2) Research Memoranda.
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Part 3) Dedication of a research paper by Robert Ezzell.
Estrogen-dervivatized fiber (diagrammatic).
Time course of uterine response to estradiol-17B.
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Part 1) Letter from Professor A.E. Mirsky.
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Part 2) Front cover illustration of General Zoology textbook by Claude Villee, (C.A. Saunders. 1978).
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Parts 1 and 2) Guggenheim Fellowship awards to SR and CMS. 1956.
Part 3) Woman of the Year Award. The Los Angeles Times. 1957.
Part 3a) Photograph in my laboratory by Times staff photographer.
Part 4. Woman of Science Award, UCLA Medical Center. UCLA Bulletin. July 3, 1961; Note from President Clark Kerr, and update. June 8, 1988, in The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
Part 5) A touching congratulatory note from a member of the (then) Royce Hall typing pool (who had typed many of my manuscripts).
Part 6) Los Angeles Times write-up of 18 Woman of Science awardees between the years 1959 and 1971.
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Part 1) Profile of Sidney Roberts. Brain Research Bulletin (vol.1, no.2). Spring 1977.
Commentary on SR research activities. UCLA Weekly. April 28, 1975.
Part 1a) Program, BRI Tenth Anniversary Reunion. July 6-8, 1972.
Part 2) Neurotransmitter studies by Sidney Roberts' laboratory. Medicine at UCLA (vol.5, no.1). Winter 1982.
Part 3) Greenberg,S.M. et al. “Molecular mechanisms in intermediate memory,” Nature (vol.329, pp.62-65). 1987.
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Part 4) “Mental illness moves into the genetics lab” (Editorial). Nature (vol.333, p.108). 12 May 1988.
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Part 5) The Genetic Load. This was drafted during a sabbatical-in-residence in 1971.
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Part 6) Sidney Roberts, CV and Publications List.
Part 7. Continuing record of distinguished University service.
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Bulletin of the London Hospital, in the East (and most bombed-out) End. 1957.
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Congratulatory note from “Padre” (Professor Loye Holmes Miller) on attaining the full professorship.
Letter from Professor David H. Solomon. October 17, 1986, reminiscing about his sabbatical year in my laboratory in 1960.
“Confrontation” (Poem).
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“Spirited Exchange on a UCLA Bulletin Board”
Part 1) Holographic originals, some on scraps of paper, as actually posted.
Part 2) As later transcribed.
Obituary, Josiah Brown.
Molecular Endocrinology (vol.1, no.1). January 1987.
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Collected correspondence and newspaper clippings, together with current updates.
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George C. Szego, Ph.D. Write-ups in national periodicals:
Part 1) The Washingtonian. April 1974.
Part 2) Newsweek. November 8, 1976.
Part 3) Forbes. January 23, 1978.
Part 4) Business Week. October 9, 1978.
Part 5) The White House News release. July 22, 1980: appointed member of the President's Council for Energy Efficiency, an honorary post for the purpose of encouraging citizen effort at conservation.
Part 6) G.C. Szego: CV as of 1989.
Part 1) G.C. Szego lecture at the Rubey Colloquium, School of Engineering, UCLA. February 13, 1980.
Part 2) Illustrations for above, presented as projected slides during the lecture.
Part 3) Correspondence and background.
Part 4) Letter of 28 April, 1978.
Part 5) G.C. Szego, Teaching and related functions.
Part 6) G.C. Szego, Further seminar on planetary energy problems.
Part 1) Letter to Jack Gorski and colleagues. February 20, 1987.
Part 2) Enclosures to above.
Part 3) Gorski's reply. April 4, 1987.
Part 4) My response. May 11, 1987.
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Parts 1-2) 2 Tables.
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Part 3) Program of the International Congress of Cell Biology, Montreal. August, 1988.
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Part 1) “Do hormones work by spilling packets of enzymes?” (editorial). New Scientist and Science Journal. 2 September, 1971.
Part 2) My response in note to Editor.
Interview in California Sun. December 8, 1967.
Summary of written comments by anonymous (to me) extramural referees on my international scientific reputation. Provided by Chairman J. Philip Thornber in a letter of 13 March, 1984.
Portions of my dossier available to me and file of correspondence with the Administration in course of the consideration of my eligibility for advancement to the Above/Scale Professorship.
Tape recording, decomissioning ceremony for Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Endocrinology, Department of Biology. September 30, 1985.
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Correspondence re my appointment to Council on Academic Personnel.
Part 1) Studio photograph of SR ca. 1963, and bookplate designed by CMS, which indicates the wide range of his intellectual interests.
Part 2) Photograph of SR at his desk at his CHS office. ca. 1986.
Humorous invitations for social occasions, joint laboratories of SR and CMS.
Part 1) New Yorker cartoon, “She must have come to terms with Something.”
Part 2) New Yorker cartoon, “But that's what you said yesterday; “just one more cord!”
Miscellaneous Addenda
Election to Hall of Fame, Hunter College. May 1987.
Collected Reprints.
Part 1) Sample of two lectures by CMS in the Advanced Endocrinology course, student tape recording. April 4, 1979.
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Part 2) A few student-taped class lectures.
Ph.D. students, CMS.
Notebooks 1-6, labeled “Historical Research Notes.”
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Notebooks 2-3.
Notebooks 4-6.
An example of humorous output of one of the earliest computers at UCLA in the office of Dr. Robert Tachirgi, then Professor of PHysiology, UCLA, presently, Professor of Neurosciences, UC San Diego.
Faculty and their research fields, Department of Biology. ca. 1983.
Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA School of Medicine. ca. 1963
Some photographs of UCLA colleagues, past and present.
Further Addenda to Guide to Appendix
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Miscellaneous Correspondence and Notes
Letter from Professor Donald D. Mossman. December 24, 1984.
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Letter from Dr. Pourreau, Marseilles, re her recent publication confirming our work on surface effects of estrogen.
Letter to Jeanne Williams, Administrative Assistant to Deans Stafford Warren and later to Sherman Mellinkoff, on her retirement.
Letter to Louise Darling on the occasion of the naming of the Biomedical Library, and her reply.
Letter from Dr. Michael N. Moore, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK, and reprint, on the subject of lysosomal function as related to our work.
Correspondence with Professor Roy O. Greep of The American Physiological Society on an article of his about the early investigations on steroid hormones.
Letters from Professor Walter L. Davis, on mutual research interests and expressing his generous comments on confirmation of aspects of our work.
Letter to Professor Tommie Sue Montgomery, Agnes Scott College, and her reply.
My commentary on the gender gap in the Faculty Research Lectureships, and its rectification under the Academic Senate chairmanship of Sidney Roberts.
Letter to Chairman, Council on Budget and Planning, on Long Range Development Plan.
Letter to C.R. Kleeman and associates re solicitation for assistance from the Hungarian Kidney Foundation in their field of kidney function (Dr. Franklin had been one of my earliest students and bottle washers).
Los Angeles Times. January 31, 1990 re closing of the distinguished B. Altman Department Store, where I had a Saturday job during college.
Correspondence with Dr. R.B. B´n´ti of the Max Planck Institute re availability of our lysosomal monoclonal antibody.
Letter to Dr. Vera Price, Permanente Medical Group, re her inquiry for leads on her research on trichothiodystrophy.
Letters and notes from Russell M. Steinberg, Ph.D., M.D., one of my own doctoral students, including information on the career of Melvyn S. Soloff, another of my Ph.D. advisees.
Dedication of a research paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry by Robert M. Ezzell, M.A. student of mine.
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Correspondence with Lorne Brandes, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology and attachment of two of his publications dedicated to me.
Very heartwarming letter from James A. Roberts, a former “mentoree,” recounting recent advances in his career at the University of Michigan Medical School, including his promotion to full professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Correspondence with Drs. Toby A. Appel and Roy Greep regarding historical notes for the American Physiological Societies Archives.
Letter from Herman Kabe, Department of Biology photographic technical wizard, on his retirement.
Correspondence, notes, official program, etc., on my participation in the International Symposium on the “New Biology of Steroid Hormones,” sponsored by the Serono Foundation in Budapest. September 1990.
Correspondence with Professor John Szent´gothai, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on a rather mundane matter--nevertheless, with some sharply humorous side-remarks on matters politico-cultural.
Summary of Budapest trip and Symposium in UCLA Emeriti Newsletter, with some notes on Hungarian history and the then current scene.
Letter from Professor George V. Avvakumov, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Byelorussian Academy of Sciences, a copy of which was sent with a covering letter to Dr. Pentti Siiteri.
Correspondence with Dr. Miguel Trueba, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, on the subject of a sabbatical year in my (then nonexistent) laboratory.
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Correspondence with representative officials of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, with special reference to the extraordinary value of the 1956-57 Fellowship award.
Response to UCLA Emeriti Center Annual Bio-Bibliography form. 1989-90.
Letter of condolence to widow of Mr. Arch O'Bryant, retired from his longtime and highly respected position in the UCLA Facilities Management Division, who was killed while working in his own garage by two thug assailants.
Letter from Dr. Steven Novak regarding early research with LSD, and notes on telephone resolution of his inquiry.
Program of the 48th annual Laurentian Hormone Conference. 1991, with participation as a featured speaker of former student, Barbara M. Lippe, presently chairman of the Division of Endocrinology, UCLA Department of Pediatrics. Also, a memento of her lecture tour of Japan on another occasion.
Note from Richard J. Sherins, M.D., also former student.
Note from Barbara J. Seeler, my chief laboratory technician for more than 17 years, and my response to “my close comrade-at-arms as we fought our wars of enlightenment.”
Letters from Valerie Tom, Pharm. D., former undergraduate student and my reply.
Letter to Dean Kenneth I. Shine of the UCLA School of Medicine accepting the invitation to the reception for the Founding Faculty and Staff and including some unsolicited comments on the contributions of Sidney Roberts (who had just undergone aortic valve replacement surgery [v. i.], and whom I did not consult about the offered commentary for obvious reasons). Responses from Professors Longmire and Madden, who received copies of my letter, attached.
My letter to family and friends, reporting on Sidney's successful aortic valve replacement surgery.
Correspondence with Dr. John A. McCracken, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, regarding nomination of Paul Lewis Munson for the Pincus Memorial Lectureship.
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Letters from Paul Munson, including invitation to provide the Estrogen chapter for his forthcoming massive pharmacology book, and my regretful refusal.
Course Description, Biology 179 (Invertebrate Endocrinology) by UCLA colleague, Dr. Franz Engelmann.
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Flyer for reception on the acquisition of the 500,000th volume by the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.
Correspondence with Ms. Eva Kulcsár about an exhibit, “Faces of the Nation,” including Hungarians in America.
Invitation to participate in the Citizen Ambassador Program, as member of a delegation of endocrinologists to visit Russia, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in May 1993. Declined.
Invitation and follow-up correspondence from Dr. Koji Yoshinaga, Head, Reproductive Endocrinology Unit, Reproductive Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to participate in an international symposium in which I was to provide the keynote address. Program and Abstract of my talk are appended. As will be noted from the correspondence, the symposium was designed around my own contributions to the field over a period of more than two decades, during which, despite its then “controversial” consideration by some, it was funded in large part by NICHD. (Parenthetically, I am appending in this context two anonymous reviews of our manuscript submitted to American Journal of Physiology. 1987, which clearly reveal awareness of the “dogged patience” that had been required to document over the years a new and unbiased approach to rapid responses to hormones by their cellular targets.).
Letters from colleagues following the above presentation.
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Exchange of letters and reference to telephone conversation with the editorial staff of the bulletin, UC Focus, on the subject of the featured presentation at the above symposium. Brief summary of the event was denied publication.
Congratulatory note regarding my participation in the above NIHCHD symposium from Professor William R. Clark, Chairman, Division I (Cellular and Molecular) of the Department of Biology, UCLA and my reply.
Exchange of letters with Dr. Dale W. Johnson, colleague from graduate student days at the University of Minnesota, and husband of the late Dr. Zelda Ball, one of my two roomates during graduate school (the other being Helen Colarich, mentioned in the correspondence, and cited on pp. 218 and 240 in the text). Johnson appears on P. 412 of the text.
Exchange of letters with Professor Béla Flerkó, former Chairman, Department of Anatomy, University of Pécs School of Medicine.
Elected to the Executive Committee, UCLA Emeriti Association for a 2-year term. 1993-95.
Recent consultations by telephone on a range of scientific subjects solicited by:
Dr. James R. Zabrecky, Applied bioTechnology, Inc.
Dr. David Zava, Aeron Biotech, Inc.
Dr. Elaine Mulvihill, Zymo Genetics, Inc.
Professor Lawrence Gilbert, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina.
Professor Bonnie Sloane, Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University.
Supplement to Notebook VI, which was labeled “Record Straight” and constituted part of original Addendum A104
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Lesly Davidson, Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Yvonne Lefebvre, University of Ottawa.
Etienne-Emile Baulieu, Universite de Paris Sud (NB: his annual Christmas cards).
H. Leon Bradlow, Institute for Hormone Research, New York.
Alan Tobin, Department of Biology, UCLA.
Miguel Trueba, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
Walter E. Stumpf, University of North Carolina. Note his generous response, and that of his co-worker, Duane Bronson.
Frederick Naftolin, Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine. He had been one of my own undergraduate students.
Martin Wehling and Co-workers, University of Munich. His rather contrite reply and my further response.
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Another method for “keeping the record straight” is the Letter to the Editor of New England Journal of Physiology. April, 1990.
Cordial comments to a colleague who has strongly confirmed some of our findings, giving some background on why our views were so long in overcoming negative conventional wisdom.
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Recently acquired supplemental information re the original “Guide to Appendix” and/or recent developments appearing in the press that bear on subjects designated by A-numbers in the “Guide.”
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Letter from Gene Fried (née Gene Watwood, as she was known at Manumit School), written in April 1990 from her Quito, Ecuador, home.
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Undated letter, received June 13, 1988, from Bette Weadon (she prefers to be called Liz Robbins, the latter her married name).
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Further data on M.C. Chang: my memoir written for his memorial service on October 12, 1991.
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Review of a biography of Tom Slick by Loren Coleman, which appeared in Nature (vol.343, p.422) ,1990.
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Interview with opera soprano Christine Weidinger. Los Angeles Times. April 6, 1991.
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Revelations, by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary in December 1993/January 1994 of the appalling nuclear experimentations during the immediate postwar period and thereafter on human subjects without their knowledge or informed consent, were riveting.
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Undated Los Angeles Times article, illustrated by a group photograph, of the “Women in Science” awardees, probably about 1961.
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Commentary by the distinguished bacterial geneticist, F.W. Stahl on then recent speculations on apparent environmental influences on mechanisms of genetic mutation. Nature (vol.346, p.791). 1990.
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Point of View. Fall 1992.
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Recent articles from The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post re reopening of the public health problem of dietary estrogen contamination.
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Annual report of the UCLA Senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure, summarizing certain errors in the academic promotion review process and listing the rights of faculty under consideration for promotion in monitoring the accuracy and completeness of the dossier.
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Colleagues past and present, with obituaries of some.
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