Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Merton Bernfield papers
- Dates:
- 1974-1987
- Creators:
- Bernfield, Merton
- Abstract:
- These papers pertain only to Bernfield's teaching in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University and include syllabi, lectures, exams, course readers, memoranda, slides used in the classes, and other papers.
- Extent:
- 17 Linear Feet (13 boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Merton Bernfield Papers (SC0767). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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These papers pertain only to Bernfield's teaching in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University and include syllabi, lectures, exams, course readers, memoranda, slides used in the classes, and other papers.
- Biographical / historical:
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Merton Bernfield was a pediatrician and cell biologist whose research led to a greater understanding of the architecture of human tissue. He earned his medical degree at the University of Illinois and later was a research associate with Marshall Nirenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, at the National Heart Institute before coming to Stanford in 1967. He taught at Stanford for 22 years as professor in the medical school and in the university's School of Humanities and Sciences, serving as chair of the Program in Human Biology, associate director of the birth defects clinic at Stanford Hospital and co-director of its premature infant follow-up clinic. He joined the Harvard Medical School faculty in 1989 as the Clement Smith Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology and Director of the Joint Program in Neonatology at the Children's Hospital, Boston.
- Physical location:
- Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-27 15:43:32 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
- Terms of access:
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While University Archives is the owner of the physical and/or digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Merton Bernfield Papers (SC0767). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Stanford University Archives, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6064, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022