James B. Sumner papers

Collection — mu: 2891

Identifier: 29-2-671

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence concerning the organization of biochemical research in Brazil, notes for addresses and lectures, drafts and reprints of articles, graphs, photographs, and slides, the Scheele medal (1929), the gold medal and certificate for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, printed Nobel proceedings, photographs of the ceremony, glass slides made in the course of his research, photographs of fellow scientists from Cornell and elsewhere, and his chemistry notebook from Harvard. Also, biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and related correspondence used by Professor Leonard A. Maynard in preparation of his memoir of Sumner, published in 1958 by the National Academy of Sciences.

Dates

1908-1958.

Creator

Sumner, James B. (James Batcheller), 1887-1955. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Laboratory of Enzyme Chemistry at Cornell University.

Sumner won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 for the crystallizations of the enzyme urease.

Extent

8 cubic feet. (8 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Correspondence concerning the organization of biochemical research in Brazil, notes for addresses and lectures, drafts and reprints of articles, graphs, photographs, and slides, the Scheele medal (1929), the gold medal and certificate for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, printed Nobel proceedings, photographs of the ceremony, glass slides made in the course of his research, photographs of fellow scientists, and his chemistry notebook from Harvard. Also, biographical sketches, notes, clippings, and related correspondence used by Professor Leonard A. Maynard in preparation of his memoir of Sumner.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence, research notes

Series II. Course and lecture notes

Series III. Books, reprints

Series IV. Photographs and glass slides

Series V. Recognitions

Physical Description

Correspondence, lecture notes, printed material, photographs, notebooks, ephemera.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: N. Dean
Date completed:: November 1986
EAD encoding:: Martin Heggestad, May 2004
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, September 2018