RGPPM. Personal Papers and Manuscript Collections (PPM)

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Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud served as the chair of Cornell University Medical College’s Department of Biochemistry from 1938-1967. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for landmark research in sulfur compounds and the first synthesis of oxytocin in 1955, and later successfully synthesized penicillin with his colleagues. The Vincent du Vigneaud, PhD Papers contain correspondence, administrative documents, research files, reprints, and other records related to his career and research.

Scope and Contents The McDermott Collection is made up of four separate series: office and personal files (Boxes 1-16), memo books and calendars (Boxes 17 and 18), awards and memorabilia (Boxes 19 and 20) and correspondence files (Boxes 21-49). The material within each series represents a wide variance of dates, some of the items going back to the Thirties and Forties, most of them pertaining to events of the late Sixties and Seventies, up to the time of Dr. McDermott's death in 1981. The papers only briefly...

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William Hinz, MD was a graduate of Cornell University Medical College, Class of 1905. The William Hinz, MD Lecture Passes consist of two copies of a pass to the “Clinical Lectures on Insanity” at Cornell University Medical College between 1903 and 1904.

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William J. Ledger, MD was the obstetrician and gynecologist-in-chief at the New York Hospital and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cornell University Medical College from 1978 through 1998. The William J. Ledger, MD Papers, which span from 1978 through 2007, include correspondence, department files, personnel material, conference material, and other files related to his personal and professional activities.