Description
Internationally known and respected neuroscientist
Paul Charles Dell, M.D., was intimately connected with the founding and growth
of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), an independent
non-governmental organization with UNESCO affiliation. This collection covers
IBRO documents and correspondence from 1961 to 1972, with the bulk from 1969 to
1971, the years in which Professor Dell was its Executive Secretary. Included
are minutes and reports of IBRO governing bodies and committees and a great deal
of correspondence.
Background
Paul Dell, M.D. (1915-1976) was an internationally respected
neurophysiologist whose major research focused on the brainstem reticular
formation and its autonomic and humoral regulatory mechanisms. After graduation
from the Faculty of Medicine, Strasbourg, he served as an army doctor in
1939-1940. After four years of physiological research in Lyon he joined the
Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg. 1949-1950 saw him in Chicago working with
Warren McCulloch and Horace W. Magoun, and in 1951 he returned to Paris to join
the C.N.R.S., where he rose to be Director of Research. In 1967 he moved to the
Division of Neurobiological Research of I.N.S.E.R.M. in Marseille, to become its
director.
Extent
1 carton (1 linear ft.)
Availability
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Biomedical
Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences for paging information.