Inventory of the Crawford F. Sams papers
| 1902 April 1 | Born, East St. Louis, Illinois |
| 1924 December | Army Medical Postgraduate School, Walter Reed |
| 1925 | Graduated, Field Artillery School at Fort Sill |
| B.S. Psychology, University of California Berkeley | |
| 1927 | M.S. Neurology, Washington University of St. Louis |
| 1929 | Assistant radiologist, Letterman General Hospital |
| M.D., Washington University of St. Louis | |
| 1922 January | Enlisted as private in 159th Infantry, California National Guard |
| 1945 | Chief of Public Health and Welfare Section of the General Headquarters, Supreme Command Allied Powers, U.S. Army, Japan |
| 1932 | Instructor, Medical Field Service, Carlisle, Pennsylvania |
| 1946-1951 | Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Japan |
| 1951-1953 | Member, Army Medical Board |
| 1961-1963 | Medical director, Institute of Medical Physics, University of California Berkeley |
| 1955 | Research physician, University of California Berkeley Operations Research Center and University of California San Francisco Department of Neurology |
| Retired from military | |
| 1934 | Director of department, Medical Field Service, Carlisle |
| 1937 | Assistant department surgeon, Department of U.S. Army, Panama Canal |
| 1939 | Medical instructor, Infantry School, Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia |
| 1941 | Chief surgeon, United States Army Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME), Cairo, Egypt |
| 1944 | Chief of Research and Development, War Department General Staff, Washington D.C. |
| 1950 | Chief of Public Health and Welfare Section, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander Allied Power for Japan, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1954-1955 | Member, Special Board for the Army Surgeon General |
| 1962 | Research physician and professor, University of California Berkeley |
| 1994 December 2 | Died |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
"Medic," autobiography of Crawford F. Sams undated
Military record 1923-1966
Military file 1953 May
Retirement, 1955
News clippings 1939-1955
"The Impact of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Military Medical Operations," 1957
"The Contribution of General Crawford F. Sams to the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1951," Ann Crusa Wyman, M.A. thesis 1975 May
Printed matter and clippings relating to Brookhaven National Laboratory 1960-1961
Miscellaneous, 1953-1955
Printed matter and clippings on public health activities in Japan 1946-1955
Press releases 1953-1955
Russia Institute notes 1965
Speeches and papers 1953-1955
"Are We Using All Our Weapons Against Tuberculosis?," Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, 1954
Address given at the dedication program 1960 January
Requests for reprints, "Experiences in Immunization Against TB with BCG Vaccines in Japan," 1951-1955
Personal file, 1943 August - 1952 October
Biographical sketch, 1952-1973
Korean episode, 1951-1959
Personal file 1952 November - 1954 March
Personal file 1954 April - 1955 July
"Views and Recommendations Concerning Military and Civilian Planning in Time of Total War," 1954
Personal files, 1955-1978
International Congress of Neurology, Vienna: "Correlation of Cation Activity with Electrophysiologic Response of CNS to Low Level Radiation," 1965 September
Final report, Part III: Time series 1963-1965
Research, records, and notes 1966-1967
Final report, Part IV: Sleep 1966
Final report, Part VII: Equilibrium model 1963-1965
Family shelter 1960 November
Paper for Acta Radiologicum (New York Symposium), Sams, Endo, Aird, et al.: "Function Response of CNS of Dogs to Low Level Radiation," 1964 September
Sams, C. F.: Epilepsy Symposium, Western Societies of Neurological Sciences 1966 March
Sams, et al.: 200 word and 1000 word abstract for American Neurological Association (Atlantic City, NJ) 1964 June
International Symposium at California Institute of Technology 1965 June
Brain research: "Potassium, Sodium Ion Estimates in a Closed Vivo System Using Glass Electrodes," 1966
Sams and Aird, American Electroencephalographic Society (Boston): "Spectral Analysis of Electrophysiological Response of CNS to Low Level Radiation -- and Its Significance," 1965 June
"Fallout Radiation," 1961 January
Final report - research project, "Central Nervous System Response to Low Level X-Irradiation," USPH Contract 86-262-160, 1965 July
"The Relationship of Acute and Delayed Effects and a Suggested Method of Treatment," 1957 May
"Central Nervous System Response to Low Level X-Irradiation" and "Application of Mathematical and Computer Techniques to Complex Biological Systems," 1967 October
Radiation references 1956-1966
EXP 98 1967 March
Cation graphs 1966-1967
Publications of Dr. Robert Aird 1948-1962
Sams, C. F. bibliography, undated
Correspondence with Lockheed 1964-1967
Radiation notes, Hawkins undated
Federal contract #PH-62-160: "Studies of the Action of Ionizing Radiation in the Production of Acute Latent Effects in Animals and Humans," 1963 June - 1964 June
Proposal for epilepsy 1965
Computer at UCSF and UC Berkeley 1966
Proposal for Atomic Energy Commission 1966
Proposal for NASA behavior undated
Proposal for National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness, 1965
Contract #PH 86-62-162, "Central Nervous System Response to Low Level Radiation," 1959-1962
Dr. J. B. Drori's proposal undated
Renewal request: United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare -- CNS Low Level Radiation, Sams 1964 June - 1965 June
General correspondence, 1966
"Central Nervous System Response to Low Level Radiation," 1965 July
"Central Nervous System Response to Low Level X-Irradiation" and "Application of Mathematical and Computer Techniques to Complex Biological Systems," 1967 October
"Fallout Radiation," 1961 January
"Central Nervous System Response to Low Level X-Irradiation," United States Department of Health, Education, and Wellness, 1965 December
Proposal for biomathematics 1966
"Air Pollution on the Engineering Field Station," 1957
Biomathematics progress report 1962
Biomathematics cation data 1965-1966
Electrode calibrations 1966-1967
Final report, Part VI: Cation activity 1963-1964
"Some Effects of Radiation on Aging" and "Biomedical Effects of Radiation Covering the Period August 31, 1959 - January 31, 1960," undated
Speech on "Nuclear Fallout Shelters," 1960
Proposal for biomathematical research group 1962
Data on Trupino, EXP 63, EXP 67 undated
Progress report, 1963 January - March
Progress report 1962 July - September
Progress report 1962 October - December
Final report, Part IX: Metabolism PO2- Glucose, SH- 1963-1964
Final report, Part VIII: Perfusions, Na K Ca 1961-1962
Supplement request: United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare -- CNS Low Level Radiation, Sams 1964 January
Quarterly report, 1964 July - September
Progress report 1964 January - March
Progress report 1963 October - December
Progress report 1963 July - September
Calibration notes 1964
Final report, Part I: General 1963
Electrode calibrations Na, 1966-1967
Electrode calibrations K 1966-1967
Final report, Part V: Mechanisms electrodes 1962-1964
Rand Symposium 1963
UCLA Symposium: "Electrophysiological Changes of the Central Nervous System in response to Low Level Radiation," 1963 August
Report 1965
Proposal for "Central Nervous System Response to Low Level X-Irradiation," 1965 June
"To Determine the Relationship of Acute and Delayed Effects of External Radiation, and the Suggested Method of Treatment," 1957 August
Reports on radiation 1946-1959
"Contributions Toward a Mathematical Model of the Human System -- I: The Respiratory System," 1959 September
Medical center (proposal), National Institutes of Health 1959
Rand Corporation 1957-1961
National Institutes of Health - Operations Research Center 1961-1967
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Biometrics) 1959-1960
Western branch of American Public Health Association Health Mobilization Committee 1960-1961
California hearings 1955-1960
Certificates 1915-1971
Charts of public health statistics in Japan undated
Yasuyori Tamba, Ishimpo, collotyped copy of section of oldest surviving Japanese medical text (984 A.D.) undated
175 prints of people and scenes in the Middle East, 1942-1943
9 prints of groups of U.S. Army officers, and 2 prints of Crawford Sams, civilians, and medical scenes in occupied Japan 1922-1937
116 prints of soldiers, civilians, and military and medical scenes in the Panama Canal Zone before World War II, and in the U.S. and occupied Japan after the war undated
619 prints of people, street scenes, and military and medical scenes in occupied Japan after World War II circa 1904s-1950s, undated
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Kamishibai performance, titled "Hokkyokuhiho" (A Secret Treasure of the North Pole) 1946 December
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unsorted prints