Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0767
Creator:
Bernfield, Merton
Title: Merton Bernfield papers
Dates: 1974-1987
Physical Description:
17 Linear feet (13 boxes)
Summary: These papers pertain only to Bernfield's teaching in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University and include syllabi,
lectures, exams, course readers, memoranda, slides used in the classes, and other papers.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Information about Access
This collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
[Identification of item], Merton Bernfield Papers (SC0767). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Merton Bernfield was a pediatrician and cell biologist whose research led to a greater understanding of the architecture of
human tissue. He earned his medical degree at the University of Illinois and later was a research associate with Marshall
Nirenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, at the National Heart Institute before coming to Stanford in 1967. He taught
at Stanford for 22 years as professor in the medical school and in the university's School of Humanities and Sciences, serving
as chair of the Program in Human Biology, associate director of the birth defects clinic at Stanford Hospital and co-director
of its premature infant follow-up clinic. He joined the Harvard Medical School faculty in 1989 as the Clement Smith Professor
of Pediatrics and Cell Biology and Director of the Joint Program in Neonatology at the Children’s Hospital, Boston.
Description of the Collection
These papers pertain only to Bernfield's teaching in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University and include syllabi,
lectures, exams, course readers, memoranda, slides used in the classes, and other papers.
Access Terms
Bernfield, Merton
Stanford University. Program in Human Biology.
Biology--Study and teaching (Higher)
Human physiology.