Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Sidney Riegelman Papers,
- Dates:
- 1960-81
- Creators:
- Riegelman, Sidney, 1921-1981
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sidney Riegelman Papers, MSS 82-12, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Sidney Riegelman papers include correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, laboratory and research notes and reports, committee minutes, computer printouts. Received 9-11/82.
- Biographical / historical:
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Dr. Riegelman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 19, 1921. He received his BS (1943) and his PhD (1948) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
In 1948 he came to UCSF as associate professor of pharmacy in the College of Pharmacy. In 1967 Dr. Riegelman became professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry, and chairman of the Department of Pharmacy.
Pursuing his interest in the relationship between drugs and biological systems, he worked in the areas of drug absorption and metabolism: physical, chemical and biological properties of absorption of drugs through biological membranes, or pharmacokinetics. Dr. Riegelman was generally considered as one of the founders and a world leader in the field of pharmacokinetics.
He was a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association, which gave him the research achievement award in Physical Pharmacy in 1968, which was followed by the Association's award in Pharmacodynamics in 1970. In that same year he was chosen Alumnus of the Year by the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
In 1973 Dr. Reigelman founded and became the editor of the Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics. Five years later he delivered the Karl Wilhelm Scheele Lecture at the meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Sweden. Dr. Riegelman was also a member of the American Chemical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
- Physical description:
- 13 cartons (327 folders)
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2000
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: November 1989.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sidney Riegelman Papers, MSS 82-12, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
- Location of this collection:
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UCSF Library & CKM Archives and Special Collections, 530 Parnassus AvenueSan Francisco, CA 94143-0840, US
- Contact: