Guide to the George Wells Beadle Papers, 1908-1984
David A. Valone; machine-readable finding aid created by Gabriela A. Montoya
Guide to the George Wells Beadle Papers, 1908-1984
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Section I: Correspondence and Documents
Ahmad, Bashir 1950-1952
Anderson, E. G. 1946-1952
Anderson, Elizabeth 1949-1953
Artagoneytia-Allende, Ricardo 1949-1951
General Correspondence - A
Babcock, E. B., M. D. 1944-1945, 1948, 1951-1952
Backus, Myron 1941, 1943-1944
Baitsell, George 1950
Baker, E. G. Stanley 1947
Ballentine, Bob 19[?]- 1953
Bates, Charles [n.d.]
Beadle, Colman (father) 1939, 1941, 1945
Beadle, George W. 1952-1954
Beadle, George W. - Condon Lectures 1955
Beadle, George W. - Geneva Trip 1957
Beadle, George - Honors
Beadle, George - Requests for Reprints
Bellamy, George 1951-1953
Bonner, David 1943, 1946
1947-1949
1951
1952-1954
Bonner, James 1943, 1946-1949
1950
1951
1952-1954
Brand, Erwin 1942-1945, 1950-1951
Braun, J. Werner 1942, 1944
Brink, Royal A. 1942-1943
Burkholder, Paul 1943-1944
General Correspondence - B
Castle, W. E. 1948
Catcheside, David G. 1944, 1947-1948, 1950-1951
Chambers, Robert 1944
Cheldelin, Vernon 1943
Child, George 1947
Chilton, St. John P. 1943
Clancy, Clarence W. 1942-1944, 1946-1947, 1949-1954
Clarke, Hans T. 1942-1943
Cleland, Ralph 1943-1947, 1950
Cooper, Kenneth 1945-1953
Corson, Edward 1953
Cosmos Club 1947-1953
General Correspondence - C
Davenport, Demerest 1952-1954, n.d.
Davis, Bernard D. 1949-1954
Davis, Paul 1946-1947, 1950
Delbrück, Max 1944-1954
Dickey, Frank 1949-1951
Dickman, Sherman R. 1945
Dodge, Bernard O. 1941-1950
Doty, Max 1947-1948, 1950-1951
General Correspondence - D
Eakin, Richard 1944
Edgerton, C. W. 1941-1942
Elvehjem, Conrad A. 1942-1944
Emerson, Ralph 1948-1949
Emerson, Robert 1946-1950
Emerson, Sterling 1939, 1942-1945
Ephrussi, Boris 1932, 1937-1945
1946-1955 [includes letters from Norman Horowitz]
General Correspondence - E
Fabergi, Alex C. 1955-1957
FIAT 1947-1948
Field, John (Jack) 1949-1952
Fox, Sidney 1943, 1945-1948, 1951-1954, 1956-1957
General Correspondence - F
Gerard, Ralph 1948, 1954
Goldschmidt, Richard 1949-1950
Gottschewski, Georg 1946-1947
Graham, Herbert 1946-1949
Gray, George 1949-1950
General Correspondence - G
Hardin, Garrett 1946-1952
Harris, Daniel 1945
Harrison, Ross G. 1945
Haseman, J. D. 1946, 1948, 1950
Haskell, Gordon 1945
Hirschfelder, Joseph 1949
Horowitz, Norman 1942, 1974, 1980-1981, 1983-1984
Houlahan, Mary 1942-1943
Hungate, Frank 1946-1947, 1949-1953
General Correspondence - H
Ierardi, Gordon 1947
General Correspondence - I
Jones, D. Breese 1942
Jones, Hardin 1955-1956, 1958
General Correspondence - J
Kalckar, Herman 1950-195[?]
Keim, F. D. 1946-1948, 1950-1953
Kubitschek, Herb 1950
General Correspondence - K
Langham, Wright 1950-1951
Leonian, Leon H. 1942-1944
Lepkovsky, Samuel 1946-1947
LeRoy, George 1949-1951
Lewis, Thomas 1948-1949
Li, H. W. 1941, 1944-1945, 1949-1950
Libby, W. F. 1948-1951
Lightbody, Howard 1942
Lilienthal, David 1949-1950
Lindegren, Carl 1941-1944, 1946-1952
Lipman, Fritz 1943
Lwoff, Andre 1945-1954
Lwoff, Marguerite 1953-1954
Lysenko Controversy 1948
General Correspondence - L
Macfarlane, Eileen 1949-1950
MacGinitie, George 1946-1954
MacKnight, Robert H. 1941
Maclay, W. Dayton 1943
Macy, Ralph 1945
Manevich, E. 1946-1947
Mangelsdorf, Albert 1949-1951
Mangelsdorf, Paul 1981
Marshak, Alfred 1943
Mather, Kenneth 1948-1949
McClintock, Barbara 1944-1954
Mc Elroy, William 1943-1945, 1947-1952
Melampy, R. M. 1950-1951, 1953
Merck & Company 1945-1946
Metz, Charles W. 1943, 1945-1953
Mickey, George 1945-1952
Moore, George 1944
Morgan, Isabel 1942-3
Morgan Family 1968-1969
Mueller, J. Howard 1942-1943
Muller, Howard J. 1946-1955
General Correspondence - M
General Correspondence - N
General Correspondence - O
Pauling, Linus 1945-1952
Perry, Albert 1947-1949
Poillon, Howard 1941-1942
Pressman, David 1947-1948, 1954
Price, Weston 1946
Princeton University 1948, 1950
Psychoanalysis As Science 1952-1953
General Correspondence - P
General Correspondence - Q
Rabideau, Glenn 1943
Regnery, David n.d., 1943
Rhoades, Marcus 1946-1947
Rich, Willis 1946-1947
Richards, Alfred N. 1942, 1945
Rick, Charley 1943
Riker, A. J. 1947-1949
Robbins, William J. 1941-1943
Roman, Herschel 1946-1953
Rose, William C. 1942-1943
Ryan, Francis 1942-1944, 1946-1952
General Correspondence - R
Sansome, Eva 1942-1943
Sanwal, D. B. 1950-1952
Scheer, Bradley 1944
Schultz, Jack 1946-1947, 1949, 1951
Shankman, S. 1942-1943
Shifriss, Oved 1945
Singleton, Jesse 1949, 1953-1954
Skoog, Folke 1942-1950
Snyder, Laurence 1946-1947, 1949-1950
Sonneborn, Tracy 1945-1950, 1954
Sprague, Fred 1943, n.d.
Srb, Adrian 1942
Stadler, L. J. 1948-1949
Stern, Curt 1942, 1945
Stokes, J. L. 1943-1944
Stone, Wilson 1945, 1947, 1949-1951
Strandskov, Herluf 1948-1949
Strong, Walter 1947
Sturtevant, Alfred 1945-1952
Summerbell, R. K. 1949
Sutton, Donald 1952
General Correspondence - S
Tan, C. C. 1943-1945
Tatum, Ed 1944, 1946-1947, 1949-1950
Teas, Howard 1944
Terry, M. C. 1946-1950
Thom, Charles 1943
Thompson, Chester 1942-1943
Twitty, Victor 1950-1951
General Correspondence - T
General Correspondence - U
Van Niel, C. B. (Kees) 1946-1950
van Overbeek, J. 1943, 1946-1947
Verdoorn, Frans 1946-1949
Volcani, Ben 1949-1950
General Correspondence - V
Wagner, Carroll 1949-1951
Watson, James 1950-1955
Weaver, Warren 1941, 1966
Weimer, Virginia 1944
Went, F.A.F. C. 1942
Went, Frits W. 1942, 1945
Werkman, Chester 1943
Whitaker, Douglas 1943, 1949-1953
Wilber, Ray Lyman 1941-1943
Williams, Roger 1942-1944
Wilson, E. B. 1948-1951
Winegarden, Howard 1944, 1947-1949
Woolley, Dilworth W. 1943-1944
Wright, Sewall 1942-1943, 1945
General Correspondence - W
General Correspondence - Y
General Correspondence - Z
Section II: Professional Organizations, Societies, Committees, and Meetings--Correspondence and Documents
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1947
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1943
AAAS General 1946-1954
Information, Letters May 1953-February 1954
Information, Letters March 1954-September 1956
Meeting February 25, 1954
General January 1953-October 1954
General October-November 1954
General December 1954-January 1955
General January-February 1955
General March 3-March 17, 1955
March-May 1955
May-June 1955
July-September 1955
October 1955
October-November 1955
Convention, Meeting June 1955
Convention, General Arrangements, Washington, D.C.
Convention, General Arrangements, Pullman
meetings, correspondence with Hecht
Convention, General Arrangements, Pacific Division
Convention, General Arrangements, Invitational Speaker
Convention, Publicity--E. Huchins, J. Miller
Convention, Dr. Edwin Guthrie - correspondence
Convention, Miscellaneous correspondence
Convention, Physics Symposium--Section B
Convention, Congratulatory letters
Convention, Final Report
July-December 1955
December 1955
January-March 1956
January-March 4, 1956
March 5, 1956-June 29, 1956
Agenda, June 1956
July-August 1956
October-November 1956
December 1956
American Association of University Professors 1953-1955
American Cancer Society, Los Angeles County Branch 1948-1949
American Chemical Society
1943, 1946-1952
Lectures, 1949-1950
Lecture Tour, October 1950
American College of Surgeons 1948-1949
American Genetic Association 1946, 1952-1953
American Institute of Biological Sciences 1946-1952
American Philosophical Society 1941-1943, 1945-1954
American Public Health Association, Lasker Award, 1950-1951, 1953
American Society of Zoologists 1947, 1949, 1951
Annual Seminar for the Study and Practice of Dental Medicine 1948
Argonne National Laboratory, Symposium 1948
Associates Food and Container Institute 1949
Atomic Bomb Casualty Committee 1953
Beta Beta Beta Biological Fraternity (Garretto) 1954
Botanical Congress VII 1948-1950
Botanical Society of America n.d., 1947, 1950
Cancer Conference 1952
CARE 1950
Eighth International Congress of Genetics 1947-1948
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 1948
Federation Proceedings 1950
Gamma Alpha 1946
Genetics Congress, Ninth 1951, 1953
Genetics Society of America
1946-1948
1950-1954
Genetics Society Congress 1942-1943
International Association of Microbiologists 1947
International Physiological Congress, Copenhagen 1950
International Society for Cell Biology 1950
Long Island Biological Association, Biological Symposium (Fourth) 1950
Los Angeles County Medical Association, Research Foundation and General Hospital 1948-1953
Medical Commission on Smog Research 1951-1953
Medical Research Association 1950-1957
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Nominations, Reports, Treasurer's Report, 1947
1947-1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954-February 1955
1955
1956-1957
Genetic Panel, October 1955-March 1956
April-June 1956
June-August 1956
September-December 1956
January-June 1957
Genetic Panel Estimates, 1955-1956
Genetic Symposium, 1957
Minutes, Officers 1945-1948
National Research Council (NRC)
NR C 1942
Growth Committee 1945
Growth Committee 1946
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission 1947-1948
Committee on Atomic Casualties, Committee Members, 1947
Committee on Atomic Casualties, Minutes of Meetings, 1947-1948
Committee on Atomic Casualties, Public Health and Welfare Section, March 1947-January 1948
Committee on Atomic Casualties, Public Health and Welfare Section, February-May 1948
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission; Bikini Reports, November 1946-December 1947
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission; Bikini Reports, April-May 1948
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission; Bikini Reports, General Report, 1945
Atomic Energy Commission Fellowships 1949
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies 1946
Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1953
Pacific Slope Biochemical Conference 1948
Phi Sigma Society 1950
Scientists's Committee on Loyalties Problems 1948-1949
Scripps Institute of Oceanography 1951
Sigma Xi 1943-1954
Society of American Bacteriologists 1945
Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine 1953
Society of General Physiologists 1948
Southern California Biochemical Society 1952
Southern California Botanists 1951-1952
Southwest Research Institute
1950-June 1952
July 1952-June 1953
July 1953-June 1954
July 1954-May 1955
Symposium at Rutger's University 1947, 1953-1954
University of Chicago 1947, 1949
Virus Conference 1950
Western Society of Naturalists 1946-1954
Westinghouse Educational Foundation 1946
Westinghouse Forum May 16-18, 1946
Section III: United States Government Organizations--Correspondence and Documents
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine, June 1947-March 1948
Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine April 1948-March 1949
Clinton Laboratory 1947-1948
Division of Biology and Medicine July 1949-June 1950 April 1954
General, March 1950-June 1951
General, September 1951-December 1954
Division of Biology and Medicine February-June 1955
Division of Biology and Medicine July-December 1955
Division of Biology and Medicine January-June 1956
Hanford Works 1948
Miscellaneous 1953
Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1949, 1951
Radioisotopes 1947-1948
Receipts for Classified Material 1948, 1950-1952
Reports 1947-1948
Training Program for Scientists in Medical and Biological Aspects of Atomic Energy 1948
U.C.L.A. Project 1949-1950
Brookhaven National Laboratory
1947
1948, 1951
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Naval Medical Research Institute and Program 23, 1949, 1952-1953
Advisory Panel on Biochemistry, Contract #MOD 8312 1946-1947
Advisory Panel on Biochemistry July 1947-December 1949
Advisory Panel on Biochemistry, Columbia University, 1947-1948
Advisory Panel on Biochemistry, Applications 1947-May 1948
Advisory Panel on Biochemistry, Applications, Proposals June 1948
Section IV: Publications--Correspondence and Documents
Abstracts, et c. 1943-1945
Academic Press 1942, 1945-1946
Advances in Genetics 1950-1953
American Journal of Botany 1951-1952
The American Naturalist 1947, 1950
Amerika 1950-1951
Annual Reviews 1946-1948, 1952
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 1954
Avery, George S. (Survey of Biological Progress) 1946-1949
Botanical Review 1949-1950
Committee on Inter-American Scientific Publication 1946
Cook, Robert 1949-1950
Darlington, Cyril (Heredity) 1946
De Bruyn, Peter (University of Chicago) 1952
Freeman, W. H. and Company
1946-1947
1948
1949-June 1950
1950
Fruton, Joseph (Treatise on General Biochemistry) 1947, 1950-1951
Genetics (The Publication) 1947-1953
Heredity ( Dr. Carl Hubbs) 1947
Harris, Boyd (MacMillan Company) 1949
MacMillan Company 1949-1950, 1954
Quarrie Corporation 1946
Saunders, W. B. Company 1945-1948, 1950-1951
Scientific American 1947-1951; 1953-1954
The Scientific Monthly 1946-1948
Spoehr, Herman Augustus (Biography) 1954-1955
Springer-Verlag 1949
"Viruses" 1950
Wiley, John and Sons 1947, 1950, 1953-1954
Yale University Press 1947, 1949
Reviews n.d.; 1943-1945
Section V: Manuscripts--Correspondence and Manuscripts
Stanford 1940's
"The Need for Integration in the Biological Sciences"
"The Integration of Genetics with the other Biological Sciences"
"The Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions"
"The Gene and Biochemistry"
"Genes and the Chemistry of the Organism"
"What is Biochemical Genetics?"
"Genes, Vitamins and Nutrition"
"Genes and Biochemistry"
"Some Recent Advances in Chemical Genetics", August 27, 1946
"Genes and Biological Enigmas" 1947
"Neurospora V. The Life Cycle of Neurospora Crassa" c. 1946
"Nucleic Acid" 1947
"Nutritional Aspects of the Science of Inheritance" c. 1946-1947
"Physiological Aspects of Genetics" c. 1946-1947
Bell Telephone Laboratories
1952-[ December] 1954
December 1954-July 1955
August 1955-September 1956
September 1956-May 1957
Genetics Book and Genetics Book Errata
Neurospora Book
Miscellaneous
"Rollins Adams Emerson"
"Heterosis"
Section VI: Speaking Engagements--Correspondence and Manuscripts
1. Arranged by Title
Chemical Genetics 1951
Chico State College 1951-1952
Dupont 1950-1954
Dyer Lecture 1951
Fullerton Junior College 1949
Johnson, John (Newport Harbor Union High School) 1948
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1953
Mills College 1950-1952
National Science Teachers Association 1951, 1954
Northwestern University 1947-1948
Pacific Dermatologic Association 1951
Pasadena Business and Professional Women's Club 1947
Phi Delta Epsilon Fraternity 1948
Princeton University Bicentennial 1946-1947
Riverside College 1948
Crescitelli, Frederick (University of California) 1947-1949
University of Chicago 1949
Nieuwland, Julius (University of Notre Dame) 1954
State College of Washington 1952
Wayne University 1948
Yale University 1946-1948
2. Arranged by Year
1952-1953
1953-1954
1954-1955
1955
1955-1956
1955-1956
1955-1956
1956-1957
3. Manuscripts only
AIBS Lecture; Michigan State College, September 6, 1955
"What is a Gene?" (abstract)
American Academy of Allergy, February 5, 1957
"The Genetic Basis of Biological Specificity"
American Cancer Society, September 12, 1955
"Pigment Cells and the Cancer Problem" November 1, 1956
"Men, Minds and Money for Cancer Research"
American Philosophical Society, Penrose Lecture
"The Gene", April 18, 1946
"Chemical Genetics" 1951
Talk on the origin of corn (Notes) n.d.
Talks about corn 1970's
Institute of International Relations, July 2, 1955
"Science, Truth and Survival"
Japan Lectures, September 1956
"What is a Gene?"
"Some Recent Advances in Neurospora Genetics"
"Gene Structure and Gene Function"
Johns Hopkins, June 1956
"The Role of the Nucleus in Heredity"
National Research Council, 1951
"Some Recent Advances in Chemical Genetics"
Pharmaceutical Association, February 17, 1957
"Chemical Genetics and Radiation Effects"
Salt Lake City Public Lectures, July 1956
"Man's Place in Nature"
"The Biology of Man, Past, Present and Future"
Sigma Xi Lecture, Stanford, May 24, 1957
"The Molecular Code We Live By"
Sigma Xi Lecture, University of Oregon, May 1956
Silliman Lectures, 1946
"Genes and Biological Enigmas"
"The Uniqueness of Man", December 27, 1956
U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, October 14, 1955
"The Structure and Function of the Gene"
University of Wyoming, July 1955
"Nature of the Gene"
YMCA Luncheon Forum, May 8, 1957
"Radiation Hazards to Our Heredity"
"The Genetic Effects of High Energy Radiation on Man" (abstract)
"Genes and the Nature of Living Systems" (abstract)
"What is a Gene?" (abstract)
"The Gene" (abstract)
"Chemical Genetics and Radiation Effects" (abstract)
Miscellaneous Talks
1950's
"The Genetic Effects of High Energy Radiation on Man" (Medical Research Association)
"Symposium on Genetic Recombination" (Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"Memorandum on Fallout"
1954-1955
"The Security System and Science"
"Gene Structure and Gene Action"
"Biology at Caltech"
1954-1955
"The Geneticist Traces the Possibilities for the Origin of Life"
"Portrait of a Scientist"
"Science and Security", February 22, 1955
"The Fifth Amendment Today"
"The Biochemistry of Genetics"
"Science and Security", YMCA, November 3, 1954
"So This Is Caltech", Parents Day, October 23, 1954
1955
"Long Range Effects of Atomic Radiation", (abstract)
"The Gene: Carrier of Heredity, Controller of Function and Agent of Evolution"
Lecture dedicated to the memory of Lewis J. Stadler
"Genes, Viruses and the Nature of Life"
n.d.
"Recollections of a Biologist"
"The Role of Foundations in the Development of Modern Biology"
"How We Inherit"
TAPE: Audio cassette tape dated 2/28/60 in tape collection.
Section VII: Research--Correspondence and Documents
Agricultural Research Administration 1942-1943 (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
American Type Culture Collection 1946-1953
Biological Warfare n.d.
Bronk, Detlev 1947, 1954
Brucine Papers 1948, 1950
Brucine Pedigrees
Brucine Tests
Carragar 1943
C. U. Mailing List/Corn Summary n.d.
The Cellular Chemistry of Amino Acids 1946-1947
Genetic Charts n.d.
Crocker, Bruce 1946-1947
Dalton, Clark 1949-1950
Dunn, M. S. 1946, 1948, 1952
Heterocaryosis n.d.
Inositollness 1944
Neurospora (Bibliography, Cultures, etc.)
Neurospora (Data on Mutants, Source of New Strains) 1943
Neurospora (Nomenclature) January-May 1952
Neurospora (Nomenclature) September 1952-January 1953
Nutrition Foundation 1942-1945
Office of Scientific Research & Development (OSRD-X) 1945
Penicillin
1944, 1947-1948
List of Mutants n.d.
Cultures 1944
Inventory 1944-1946
Research Progress Report n.d
#169 Recent 1944
OSRD #169 1944
OSRD 1942
OSRD 1944
OPRD 1945
Radiation 1956
Radiation, Letters and Manuscripts
Research Corporation 1941-1945
Scherbak, H. 1947
Segall, Gabriel 1946-1947
Sharp & Dohme 1943-1944
Sproston, Thomas 1950
Tomato Experiment 1945
Tomato Genetics Coop. Report 1951-1953
U.S. Army Contract c. 1942
X-ray Data, Taylor, Thomas, Brown, M.A. Thesis 1938, 1941
Catalogs, Instruments, etc.
Section VIII: Administration and Teaching
Stanford: Budget and Appointments 1942-1943
Stanford: Applications for Positions 1945
Genetic Class/Biology 108
Genetic 169 Lecture
Biology 107 Exams
Advanced Genetics
Experiments in Genetics n.d.
List of M.A. and Ph.D. theses, 1939-1947
Section IX: Reprints
Bibliography: Speeches; Articles; Published Works
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1981
Biochemical Aspects of Genetics 1950
Chemical Genetics n.d.
On A. H. Sturtevant and B. O. Dodge n.d.
Miscellaneous
Reprints Requested 1947-1949
Reprints sent 1944-1945
Section X: Biographical--Correspondence and Documents
Miscellaneous
Letter to Beadle from his mother 1908
"The Uncommon Farmer" by Ruth Beadle (G.W.B.'s sister) n.d.
University of Nebraska Recollections 1975
Letters on Beadle's 80th birthday 1983
Articles about Beadle, including autobiographical
Genealogy
File I
File II
File III
File IV
Material on Mountain Climbing 1952-1953
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous articles
Awards and Honors
R. E. Dyer Lectureship 1951
American Horticultural Society 1960
Neurospora Newsletter # 20 1973
Proctor Prize 1981
"Biomechanical Genetics: Some Recollections" n.d.
"Recollections of a Geneticist", 1981
Interviews 1966, 1976, 1978
Articles re: Scientific Luminaries 1980-1981
Photographs
Photographs (corn)
Neurospora Slides, Drawn and hand painted by Beadle. 1946
Diplomas from the University of Nebraska
B.S. degree 1926
M.S. degree 1927
Sc.D. degree 1944
Guest Book 1958
Additional Material
"Maize for Biological Research", William F. Sheridan, editor. Introduction written by Beadle on Rollins Adams Emerson
Photograph Album: "The Busy Years of George Wells Beadle At The California Institute of Technology, 1931-1961," including picture key prepared by Muriel Beadle
Nobel Prize 1958
Lasker Award 1950
Emil Christian Hansen Prize 1953
National Research Fellow of Biological Sciences of the National Research Council