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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Henry S. Kaplan papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0317
Physical Description:
35 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): circa 1960-1983
Summary: Professional and
administrative correspondence; research and clinical abstract files, and research notebooks;
films; biographical material including an oral history interview; and other
files.
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
This collection is open for research. Materials marked with asterisk (*) throughout
collection are restricted for 75 years from date of creation, and are housed in Series IX,
Box 1.
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.
Henry S. Kaplan Papers (SC0317). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Correspondence, notebooks, grant contracts, teaching rraterials, and human rights papers
were originally maintained at Kaplan's office and laboratory at the cancer Biology Research
laboratory. Abstract files, films, and tapes were maintained at Kaplan's of ice at the
Radiation Therapy Department. Manuscripts, reprints, and miscellaneous materials were
maintained at Kaplan's home. Little rearrangement within the individual series was
necessary, except to re-establish order. Preliminary inventory was completed in July 1985 by
Robin Chandler.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Radiologist, cancer research pioneer and educator. Henry S. Kaplan, 1918-1985, began his
teaching career at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1948. He served as
professor and chair of the Dept. of Radiology (1948 to 1972) and was named D'Ambrogio
Professor of Radiology in 1975. He also served as director of the Cancer Biology Research
Laboratory (1975 to 1985) and the Biophysics Laboratory (1957 to 1962) at Stanford. Kaplan
was best known for his work on leukemia and Hodgkins disease and for his work with Edward
Ginzton on the development of the medical linear accelerator for cancer treatment. Kaplan's
honors were international and numerous, among them the distinction of first radiologist
elected to the National Academy of Science. In 1984, the Stanford Board of Trustees created
the Henry S. Kaplan Professorship in Cancer Biology in recognition of his major
contributions to the University and to society.
The Henry S. Kaplan papers include professional and administrative correspondence focusing
prilnarily on his cancer research and the activity of the cancer Biology Research
laboratory, research and clinical abstract files, research notebooks, films, correspondence
concerning human rights and activities in Israel, biographical material including an oral
history interview, and other files. The collection spans the years 1960 to 1983, covering
his work at Stanford University as professor and chair of the Department of Radiology, as
D'Ambrogio Professor of Radiology, and as Director of the cancer Biological Research
Laboratory.
Kaplan's extensive slide collection describing his experimental research is currently used
for teaching and is maintained by the Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine.
Kaplan's records concerning the development of the medical accelerator "CLlNAC" are not a
part of this collection (some materials regarding CLlNAC can be found, however, in the
Edward Ginzton papers (SC 330). Kaplan's papers also do not include materials concerning his
career with the Stanford Medical School before its move to the Stanford campus in 1959.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Science -- History.
Cancer.