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Karl Meyer papers, 1900-1975.
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Title:

Karl Meyer papers, 1900-1975
Karl Friedrich Meyer papers
K.F. Meyer papers

Creator/Contributor:

Meyer, K. F. (Karl Friedrich), 1884-1974, creator, creator.

Abstract:

Correspondence; research and lecture notes; laboratory notebooks; files related to professional meetings and seminars; manuscripts of writings; correspondence with publishers. Also includes personal memorabilia and correspondence with family and friends.

Date:

1900 (issued)

Subject:

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Meyer, K. F. (Karl Friedrich) -- 1884-1974 -- Archives
University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty
George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research. -- Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine.
Epidemiology -- Research
Pathology
Public health -- California
Bacteriology
Medicine -- Research -- California
Veterinary medicine -- Research -- California

Note:

PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENT: Consult University Archives regarding use.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advanced notice required for use.
Cartons 19, 20, 75, 77: UNARRANGED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE: Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
Copy of Dr. Hilary Koprowski, Wistar Institute correspondence, 1952-1969 (Carton 29, 2 folders): also available on microfilm with call number BANC FILM 2785.
Karl Meyer papers, BANC MSS 76/42 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photographs transferred to the Bancroft Pictorial Collections (BANC PIC 1976.085--PIC).
Related collection: Karl Meyer papers : additions (BANC MSS 83/45 cz).
Library also holds copy of an oral history, entitled Karl F. Meyer: Medical Research and Public Health. (76/138c).
Karl Friedrich Meyer was born May 19, 1884, in Basel, Switzerland, and died in San Francisco, California on April 27, 1974. He came to the University of California in 1914 as Professor of Bacteriology and Experimental Pathology. He became Director of the G.W. Hooper Foundation for Medical Research in 1924, and developed it into a center for study in world public health and epidemiology.
In English.

Type:

Faculty papers.
Letters.

Physical Description:

print
(1 110 10 1 1
1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box Box 3149) and positive.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENT: Consult University Archives regarding use.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advanced notice required for use.
Cartons 19, 20, 75, 77: UNARRANGED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE: Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.