Gladys A. Sperling papers

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Identifier: 21-14-3324

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence files, subject files, talks and papers, reprints (both those in which Sperling is a co-author and ones by Clive McCay), and clippings. Also student notebooks, particularly in bacteriology.

Included is a subject file on Professor Loren Petry and photographs relating to the Nobel Prize award to James Sumner.

Dates

1929-1987.

Creator

Sperling, Gladys Athena, 1903- (Person)
McCay, Clive Maine, 1898-1967. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Research assistant in nutrition.

After receiving an M.S. degree in bacteriology from Cornell in 1936, Miss Sperling was hired by Professor Clive McCay to assist him in nutritional studies. She was responsible for rats and other laboratory animals, supervised graduate students and other technicians, mixed animal feed, answered correspondence, created exhibits, helped take blood samples, and arranged for photography. She is credited as a co-author on many scientific papers on foods, nutrition, health, and longevity. Gladys Sperling died on January 17, 2003.

Extent

2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence

Series II. Subject Files

Series III. Articles, Papers, Talks

Series IV. Photographs

Series V. Reprints

Series VI. Coursework

Series VII. Experiments

Series VIII. Miscellany

Physical Description

Correspondence, subject files, clippings, notebooks, photographs.

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:: Julia Parker
Date completed:: Jan. 19, 2004
EAD encoding:: Julia ParkerPeter Martinez