BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
General
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
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
Certificates and Awards
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
Letters of Congratulations
National Academy of Sciences 1963
National Science Foundation 1969
UCSD Chancellor Appointment 1972
UCSD Chancellor - Farewell letters 1980
Miscellaneous letters of congratulations 1971 - 1975
CORRESPONDENCE
Alphabetical
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
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
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
Chronological
1975 - 1977
1978 - 1989
WRITINGS
Numbered Reprints
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
Unnumbered Writings
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
Reports
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
RESEARCH MATERIALS
Laboratory Notebooks
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
Bioluminescence - Miscellaneous Materials
Articles 1966 - 1989
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
E. Newton Harvey Manuscript Materials
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
TEACHING MATERIALS
Johns Hopkins University
Biochemistry - Exams 1962
Lecture notes
Amino Acid Metabolism
Bioluminescence
Carbohydrates
Enzymes
Kinetics Rate Theory
Syllabi - Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 1952 - 1965
University of California, San Diego
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
SPEECHES AND LECTURES
National Science Foundation
Congressional Hearing Statements 1969 - 1976
Remarks
Index 1969 - 1970
1969 - 1970
Index 1971
1971
World's Largest Laboratory 1971
University of California, San Diego
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 OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES
Originals