Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Philip Seeman papers
- Dates:
- 1957-2005
- Creators:
- American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and Seeman, Philip
- Extent:
- .8 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Philip Seeman Papers (Collection 1234). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Documents, including publications and unpublished papers and notes, related to Philip Seeman.
- Biographical / historical:
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Philip Seeman (1934- ) received his Doctorate in Medicine from McGill University in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Life Sciences, under George Emil Palade (1974 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine), at the Rockefeller University in 1966. He conducted research in the Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, University of Toronto, from 1970 onward. He notes in his cirriculum vitae, "I have devoted my career to my 1975 discovery of the antipyschotic receptor (now called the dopamine D2 receptor) and to scientific research on the basis of psychosis."
- Custodial history:
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Gift of Philip Seeman to the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), 2005; transfered to UCLA in 2008.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-17 08:48:54 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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 where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Philip Seeman Papers (Collection 1234). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-6940