Register of the Thomas Nathaniel Burbridge Papers, 1959-1972
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Register of the Thomas Nathaniel Burbridge Papers, 1959-1972
Collection number: MSS 79-4
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- 1984
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1997 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Thomas Nathaniel Burbridge Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1959-1972
Collection number: MSS 79-4
Creator: Burbridge, Thomas Nathaniel, 1921-1972
Extent: Number of containers: 4 cartons
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Thomas Nathaniel Burbridge Papers, MSS 1959-72, Archives &
Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Abstract
Received May 9, 1979, from Mrs. Thomas Burbridge.
Collection includes correspondence, lecture notes and materials, grant proposals,
research notes, data and manuscripts, photographs.
Biography
Thomas N. Burbridge was born in New Orleans, LA, July 12, 1921. He received his A.B. from
Talladega College in 1941, and his MD from UCSF in 1948. In 1956 Dr. Burbridge received
his PhD, also from UCSF.
From 1942 through 1945 he served in the U.S. Navy, and from 1952 to 1955 Dr.Burbridge
served in the U.S. Public Health Service, as a visiting lecturer in Indonesia. On his
return to this country Dr. Burbridge became assist. professor of pharmacology and
experimental therapeutics at UCSF, becoming assoc. professor in 1970.
Dr. Burbridge was a member of the American Society of Pharmacology, the Society for
Experimental Biology and Medicine, and the American Therapeutic Society. His
primary research interests were comparative pharmacology, alcohol metabolism,
psychopharmacology and drug metabolism.
He was a member of the Board of the NAACP, and in 1967 was honored for his outstanding
contributions to bringing justice and equality to San Francisco. In 1973 the UCSF
campus named for him an award given annually to a UCSF staff member, faculty
member or student, for outstanding community service. Dr. Burbridge was married to the
former Yvonne Mason, and they have five children.
Series I. Teaching Materials
Carton Ctn. 1 , Folder 1.
Student interviews/evaluations
Access Information
[RESTRICTED]
Folder 9.
Laboratory manual of embryology
Series II. Research Files
Carton Ctn. 1 , Folder 10.
Folder 11.
Chromatography strips (1)
Folder 13.
Chromatography strips Cannabis (1)
Folder 14.
Chromatography strips Cannabis (2)
Folder 15.
Chromatography strips Cannabis (3)
Folder 16.
Correspondence, manuscripts cannabis sativa
Folder 17.
Marijuana & abc penetrability
Folder 18.
Marijuana & abc penetrability
Series III. Subject Files
Carton Ctn. 1 , Folder 19.
Agents affecting the liver
Folder 23.
Methozypromazine (1963) EKGs
Carton Ctn. 2 , Folder 25.
Folder 26.
Progress report (1959-60),Alcoholic metabolism project
Folder 36.
Metabolism of ethyl alcohol
Folder 37.
Some aspects of the metabolism of alcohol in vitro
Folder 38.
Amino acid requirements of histoplasma capsulation
Folder 39.
Brain catalase and alcohol oxidation
Folder 40.
Brain catalase and alcohol oxidation
Folder 41.
Human cerebral cortex ethanol uptake
Carton Ctn. 3 , Folder 43.
Folder 44.
Negatives (charts and graphs)
Folder 46.
Laboratory notebooks (10 notebooks)
Carton Ctn. 4 , Folder 47.
Laboratory notebooks (17 notebooks)