Biographies

Curriculum vitae

Johns Hopkins University - McCollum-Pratt Institute for Investigation of Micronutrient Elements - Brochure

National Science Foundation Publication Articles 1970

Newspaper clippings 1950 - 1988

Paul Saltman/Academic Senate Controversy - Clippings and correspondence 1979

Personal correspondence

Photographs

Gordon Research Conference - Organization of Metabolic Sequences 1987

McElroy with others

National Science Foundation

Other scientists

UC San Diego

Miscellaneous

Recipes

Tribute to William D. McElroy - Program 1999

UCSD Education Delegation to China

Memorabilia 1979

Photographs 1979

Scrapbook 1 1979

Scrapbook 2 1979

Scrapbook 3 1979

Scrapbook 4 1979

Slides 1979

Who's Who Biographical Data 1972 - 1980

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Fellow Award 1959

American Academy of Microbiology - Fellow Award 1992

American Association for the Advancement of Science - Fellow Award 1955

Bishop's Schools - Board of Visitors Certificate 1982

California Junior College Association - Distinguished Junior College Alumnus Award 1971

California School of Professional Psychology - Doctor of Letters 1978

City of Baltimore - Board of School Commissioners 1964

Delaware State College - Doctor of Science Honoris Causa 1 & 2 1971

McElroy Endowment Fund Donors List

Mexican and American Foundation and Chicano Health Center - Orador de Honor 1975

National Medal of Science - Invitation 1971

National Science Foundation Plaque 1973

Providence College - Doctor of Public Service Honors 1970

Reed College - Griffin Associate

Regents of the University of California

Appreciation Award

Chancellor Recognition 1972

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers - Special Membership 1971

University of Buffalo - Honorary Doctor of Science 1962

UCSD Alumni and Friends Association Award 1980

UCSD Board of Overseers - Distinguish Membership Certificate 1990

UCSD Student Recognition 1980

University of Pittsburgh - Doctor of Laws 1971

Miscellaneous Membership Awards 1971 - 1996

National Academy of Sciences 1963

National Science Foundation 1969

UCSD Chancellor Appointment 1972

UCSD Chancellor - Farewell letters 1980

Miscellaneous letters of congratulations 1971 - 1975

Miscellaneous, A-Z

Academic Press, Incorporated 1981 - 1985

American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science article 1975 - 1977

American Society for Photobiology (James W. Longworth) 1981

Analytical Biochemistry - An International Journal 1974 - 1982

Annual Reviews Incorporated - Board of Directors 1976 - 1980

Atkinson, Richard 1980 - 1981

Baltimore Sun 1985

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 1979 - 1988

Bishop's School

Charles Lee Powell Foundation - Board of Directors 1981 - 1989

Colowick, Sidney 1981

Consejo Cultural Mundial 1986 - 1987

Council of Graduate Schools in the United States 1981

Current Wisdom 1986

De Vries, Louis, Sr. 1984

Fitch, Robert S. 1981

Foundation for Ocean Research 1979 - 1987

Foundation for Ocean Research - Meeting Minutes 1980 - 1987

Franklin Institute 1981 - 1982

Global Energy Network, International 1986 - 1988

Imai, Kazuhiro 1980 - 1982

Institute for Research on Aging - Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Aging 1980 - 1983

Johns Hopkins University 1944 - 1981

Johnson, Frank H. 1980

Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence 1996

Kuo, De-Liang 1981

Lawson, Anna 1984

Lederberg, Professor Joshua 1977

Lee, John 1981

Morgan, Neil 1977

National Academy of Sciences 1981 - 1987

National Science Board 1981

Nie, Song-Qing 1981

Nixon, Richard - National Science Foundation Directorship acceptance letter 1971

Nutrition Foundation, Incorporated 1982 - 1984

Nutrition Foundation, Incorporated - Board of Directors - Meeting Minutes 1982 - 1984

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Howard I. Adler) 1983

Ogilvie, A. 1981

"Orloff Affair" 1978 - 1979

Pates, Hugh 1977

Prentice-Hall, Incorporated 1972 - 1973

Potomac Capital 1984

Ramseyer, Ray 1980

Reagan, Ronald 1973

Reed College 1980

Reed College Alumni Association 1955

Roche Institute of Molecular Biology 1980

Roda, Aldo 1982

Royal Society 1966 - 1968

San Diego Gas and Electric Company 1981 - 1987

Springer-Verlag 1981 - 1982

Stratman, Earl 1979

United States Department of Education 1980

University of Arizona 1980

UCSD Center for Molecular Genetics 1987

UCSD Retirement Club 1986

UCSD Theodore E. Gildred Sr. Cancer Center

Board of Directors 1980 - 1996

Board of Directors - Meeting Minutes 1980 - 1986

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes 1983 - 1985

Nominating Committee - Meeting Minutes 1983 - 1985

University of Georgia - National Conference on the Future of University Research 1982 - 1986

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Massachusetts - Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1975

University of New Hampshire - Review 1982

University of Oxford (Ainsworth Harrison) 1968 - 1969

Wright Energy Corporation 1982

Young, Milton - National Science Foundation Directorship reaction letter 1971

Zobell, Claude

1975 - 1977

1978 - 1989

Publications list 1943 - 1987

3. "Bubble Formation in Animals: An Analysis of Gas Tension and Hydrostatic Pressure in Cats" 1944

3. "Bubble Formation in Animals: Gas Nuclei and Their Distribution in Blood Tissues" 1944

11. "Removal of Gas Nuclei From Liquids and Surfaces" 1945

20. "The Effect of Mechanical Disturbance on Bubble Formation in Single Cells and Tissues After Saturation..." 1946

21. "The Mechanism of Inhibition of Cellular Activity by Narcotics" 1947

23. "The Mechanism of Inhibition of Bioluminescence by Naphthoquinones" 1947

34. "Purification of Firefly Luciferin" 1949

39. "Properties of Firefly Pyrophosphatase" 1951

41. "Properties of the Reaction Utilizing Adenosinetriphosphate for Bioluminescence 1951

46. "Purification of Cypridina Luciferase" 1951

65. "Mechanism of Action of Micronutrient Elements in Enzyme Systems" 1954

72. "Metal Toxicity and Iron Deficiency Effects on Enzymes in Neurospora" 1955

75. "Crystalline Firefly Luciferase" 1956

77. "Purification and Properties of Bacterial Luciferase" 1955

79. "Function of Adenosine Triphosphate in the Activation of Luciferin" 1959

86. "The Preparation and Properties of Crystalline Firefly Luciferin" 1957

87. "Neurospora Nitrate Reductase: The Role of Phosphate, Flavine and Cytochrome c Reductase" 1958

91. "The Function of Coenzyme A in Luminescence" 1958

92. "Enzymic Formation of Choline Sulfate" 1958

95. "The Synthesis and Function of Luciferyl-adenylate and Oxyluciferyl-adenylate" 1958

96. "Mechanism of Hydrogen Sulfide Formation from Thiosulfate" 1959

97. "Light Emission from Extracts of Luminous Fungi" 1959

98. "Some Structual and Molecular Facets of Cerebral Responses to Drugs" 1959

100. "Spectral Emission and Quantum Yield of Firefly Bioluminescence" 1960

101. "Pathways of Energy Transfer in Bioluminescence" 1960

102. "Bioluminescence" 1960

106. "Spectroscopy of the Apogon Luminescent System and is Cross Reaction with the Cypridina System" 1961

114. "Origin and Evolution of Bioluminescence" 1962

115. "Biological Luminescence" 1962

119. "The Growth of World Population" 1963

120. "Insect Bioluminescence" 1964

127. "Enzyme Catalysis and Color of Light in Bioluminescent Reactions" 1965

128. "Analogs of Firefly Luciferin" 1965

130. "Living Light" 1966

131. "Role of Sulfhydryl Groups in Activating Enzymes. Properties of Escherichia Coli Lysine - Transfer..." 1966

133. "Biological and Physical Observations on a Phosphorescent Bay in Falmouth Harbor, Jamaica, W. I. 1966

134. "The Colors of Bioluminescence: Role of Enzyme and Substrate Structure" 1966

135. "Firefly Bioluminescence" 1966

137. "Isolation and Sequence of an Essential Sulfhydyrl Peptide at the Active Site of Firefly Luciferase" 1966

139. "Molecular Uniformity in Biological Catalyses" 1967

143. "Role and Reactivity of Sulfhydryl Groups in Firefly Luciferase" 1969

144. "Biomedical Aspects of Population Control" 1969

145. "Mechanism of Bioluminescence, Chemiluminescence and Enzyme Function in the Oxidation of Firefly..." 1969

147. "Substrate-Binding Properties of Firefly Luciferase: Luciferin-binding Site" 1969

149. "Substrate-Binding Properties of Firefly Luciferase: ATP-Binding Site" 1970

150. "Catalytic Subunit of Firefly Luciferase" 1970

152. "Isolation and Partial Characterization of a Peptide Derived from the Luciferin Binding Site of..." 1971

156. "Insect Bioluminescence" 1974

157. "Kinetics of the Firefly Luciferase Catalyzed Reactions" 1974

158. "The Unity in Biochemistry" 1976

159. "Chemistry of Firefly Luminescence" 1978

163. "Bioluminescence" 1983

165. "Firefly and Bacterial Luminescence: Basic Science and Applications" 1983

166. "Two Kinetically Distinguishable ATP Sites in Firefly Luciferase" 1984

167. "Biochemistry of Insect Luminescence" 1985

168. "Firefly Luminescence" 1986

American Basic Sciences Require Healthy Universities 1977

Anion Inhibition of Firefly Luciferase 1970

Bioluminescence

Care, Feeding and Control of Technology 1982

Color of Bioluminescent Light 1967

Complimentary DNA Coding Click Beetle Luciferases Can Elicit Bioluminescence of Different Colors 1989

Cornelis Bernardus Van Niel (1897-1985)

Decarboxylation of Luciferin in Firefly Bioluminescence 1968

Education 1980

Environment

Enzymatic Detection of Hydrazine

Firefly Luciferase 1960

From the Precise to the Ambiguous: Light, Bonding, and Administration 1976

Global Age: Roles of Basic and Applied Research 1977

Growth of World Population 1965

Growth of World Population - U.S. Policy 1968

Health 1980

History of the Biochemistry of Luminescence

History of Biology at the Johns Hopkins University

International Affairs 1986

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Lipmann's Influence on Firefly Luminescence 1988

Marlene A. DeLuca: In Memoriam 1988

Nathan Oram Kaplan (June 25, 1917-April 15, 1986)

Related correspndence 1985 - 1987

Page proofs 1993

Research materials 1993

Typescript drafts 1993

Biographic memoir 1994

National Science Foundation: The Crisis in Research and Development 1970

Natural Resources 1980

Normal Pathways of Assimilation of Nitrate and Nitrite 1956

Origins of Biochemical

Poem 1973

Pollution, Population, and Food

Promise of the Sea 1961

Ribosome Recycling Factor (Ribosome Releasing Factor) Is Essential for Bacterial Growth 1994

Science and the Public 1971

Space 1980

Sulfhydryl Groups of Tryptophan - Transfer Ribonucleic Acid Synthetase 1966

Support of Basic Research 1975

To Interview a Scientist 1978

Toward a New Partnership 1976

Transportation

Will Family Planning Solve the Population Problem?

Untitled firefly bioluminescence writing 1982

Assuming the Resources for Biomedical Research - Conducted by the Research Resources Evaluation Panel of the National Institute of Health 1976

Committee to Study Organized Research (UCSD) - Final Report 1980

National Science Foundation - Director's Program Review 1970 - 1971

Report of the Long Range Planning Committee to the President, The Johns Hopkins University 1966

Book #2 - Frances Barbusca 1952

Book #10 - Valerie Sonnenfeld 1952

Book #12 - Jane Coulombre 1953

Book #13 - Valerie Sonnenfeld 1953

Book #14 - Ann L. Claggett 1953

Book #15 - Valerie Sonnenfeld 1953

Book #16 - Jean Colombre and Valerie Sonnenfeld 1953 - 1954

Book #17 - Ann L. Claggett 1953 - 1954

Book #18 - Luminous Bacteria 1953 - 1954

Book #20 - Valerie Sonnenfeld 1954

Book #23 - Edith Kolacskovszky 1954

Book #24 - Valerie Sonnenfeld 1954

Book #26 - Valerie Sonnenfeld 1954 - 1955

Book #19 - Protein Determination 1955 - 1958

Book #34 1955 - 1956

Book #35 - Hilda Beck 1955 - 1956

Book #32 - Luminous Bacteria 1956 - 1957

Book #37 - Assay - Luminous Bacteria 1956

Book #38 - L. Geiger 1956

Book #39 - L. Geiger 1957

Book #40 - Luminous Bacteria 1957

Book #42 - Cypridina 1958 - 1960

Bacterial Luciferase 1959

Book #3 - P.R. Elliott - Aldehyde Quantum Yields "A.fischerienzyme" - Enzyme Reduction, Gsh, Cysteine 1961 - 1962

Book #10 - Z. Paritzky and P.R. Elliott - Benzothiazole Isotope 1961 - 1963

Book #5 - P.R. Elliott - VPC Gas Chromatography of Aliphatic Aldehydes, Acids, and Alcohols 1961

Book #7 - P.R. Elliott - Pholas Dactylus Enzymology 1962

Articles 1966 - 1989

Bioluminescence: Light in the Sea - 16mm film, color, sound. United States Navy - Naval Air Systems Command

Film (untitled) - Johns Hopkins University Firefly Research. 16mm color

Firefly cartoons

Luminescence Review - ATP Measurements: Theory and Practice 1981

Photographs

Firefly 1968 - 1980

Glow worm. Includes glass slides

Glow worm. Framed photograph

Other organisms

Other organisms (Laboratory bioluminescence)

Other organisms (Microscopic)

Tobacco plant

Related correspondence 1971 - 1980

Second International Symposium on Analytical Application of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence 1980

Miscellaneous notes

Chemiluminescence - Draft

General correspondence 1955 - 1959

Fireflies in Folklore and Fantasy

Publisher correspondence and notes 1956 - 1959

Typescript draft & handwritten notes - Preface, Contents and Chapter 1 1959

Typescript draft - Chapters 1-3

Typescript draft - Chapter 2 1959

Typescript draft - Chapters 3-5 1959

Typescript draft - Various sections 1959

Illustrations

Firefly and glow-worm poetry

Glow Worms and Evolution by Richard B. Goldschmidt 1948

Popular writings regarding fireflies 1957

Biochemistry - Exams 1962

Lecture notes

Amino Acid Metabolism

Bioluminescence

Carbohydrates

Enzymes

Kinetics Rate Theory

Syllabi - Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 1952 - 1965

Chemistry and Biochemistry Reading Group - Syllabus 1981

Marine Biochemistry 185

Correspondence 1982 - 1986

Handouts 1982 - 1985

Lecture notes 1982 - 1986

Exams 1982 - 1986

Miscellaneous notes

Congressional Hearing Statements 1969 - 1976

Remarks

Index 1969 - 1970

1969 - 1970

Index 1971

1971

World's Largest Laboratory 1971

Remarks

Index & 1-21 1972

Index & 1-14 1973

Index 1974

15-32 1974

Index & 1-11 1975

Index & 13-18 1976

Index & 19-30 1977

Index & 31-50 1978 - 1980

UCSD Professor of Biology - Remarks 1981 - 1984

Originals