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Collection of material about Charles Huggins and correspondence with Elmer Belt and Willard E. Goodwin.1946-1985
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Description
Correspondence with and subject files from the offices of Los Angeles urologists Elmer Belt (1893-1980) and Willard E. Goodwin (1915-1998), pertaining to Canadian oncologist Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-1997). Huggins shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer. Goodwin's files range from 1946-1948 and 1966-1985; Belt's files span 1956-1977. Also: Audiocassette tape labeled "Nobel Prize winner Charles Huggins on his discovery of orchiectomy for prost. cancer".
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1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
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Property rights in the physical objects belong to the UCLA Biomedical Library. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish if the Biomedical Library does not hold the copyright.
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Collection is open for research.