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Call Number: SC0186
Creator:
Lederberg, Joshua.
Title: Joshua Lederberg papers
Dates: 1959-1979
Physical Description:
22 Linear feet
Summary: Papers consist of Lederberg's administrative files while head of
the department of genetics at Stanford University Medical School from 1959 to 1978; they
are divided into five series. 1) General files, 1959-77, pertain to miscellaneous
University and Medical School committees and matters including computer systems,
curriculum, and research proposals. 2) Minutes, agenda, and memos from the Stanford
Medical School Executive Committee, 1959-78. 3) Agenda, memos, and subject folders from
the Stanford University Committee on Research, 1966-78, including topics such as
conflict of interest, defense research, human subjects, and patents. 4) Personnel files
on people under consideration for appointment to the SUMS faculty, 1962-78. 5) Plans,
proposals, and equipment specifications for the Clinical Sciences Research Building,
1960-66. Papers added to the collection since 1978 pertain to a SWOPSI course on the
environmental impact on health taught by David P. Sachs, 1970; two Stanford academic
programs: United States-China Relations, 1973-78, and Arms Control and Disarmament,
1971-78; and the genetics department.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Joshua Lederberg, 1978-2000.
Partially restricted: personnel and search files are restricted 75 years from date of
creation.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Joshua Lederberg Papers (SC0186). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Lederberg earned his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1947. He taught genetics at the
University of Wisconsin before coming to the Stanford University School of Medicine in
1959 as Professor of genetics and biology.
Papers consist of Lederberg's administrative files while head of the department of
genetics at Stanford University Medical School from 1959 to 1978. Papers added to the
collection since 1978 pertain to a SWOPSI course on the environmental impact on health
taught by David P. Sachs, 1970; two Stanford academic programs: United States-China
Relations, 1973-78, and Arms Control and Disarmament, 1971-78; and the genetics
department.
Among the miscellaneous subject folders are several proposals for grants and new
buildings, one of which contains correspondence with the Commonwealth Fund, documenting
the establishment of the Stanford University medical School, during the years 1954-1959.
Other proposals include one for cardiovascular and respiratory research, 1974, for a
genetics research center, 1973, and for a department of human development, 1969. Other
committees, whose records are filed in the general files category, include an advisory
committee on the engineering school, the Provost's computation committee, the SUMS
committee on courses and curriculum, and numerous search committees for medical school
faculty and administrative positions.
These papers contain little or no material on Dr. Lederberg's personal life or research
work.
The papers are divided into five series and subsequent accessions: 1) General files,
1959-77, pertain to miscellaneous University and Medical School committees and matters
including computer systems, curriculum, and research proposals. 2) Minutes, agenda, and
memos from the Stanford Medical School Executive Committee, 1959-78. 3) Agenda, memos,
and subject folders from the Stanford University Committee on Research, 1966-78,
including topics such as conflict of interest, defense research, human subjects, and
patents. 4) Personnel files on people under consideration for appointment to the SUMS
faculty, 1962-78. 5) Plans, proposals, and equipment specifications for the Clinical
Sciences Research Building, 1960-66.
Lederberg, Joshua.
Sachs, David P.
Stanford University--Administration.
Stanford University--Buildings.
Stanford University. Arms Control and Disarmament
Program.
Stanford University. Committee on
Research.
Stanford University. Computation Center.
Stanford University. Medical
School--Curriculum.
Stanford University. Medical
School--Faculty.
Stanford University. Medical School. Executive
Committee.
Stanford University. Medical School.
Stanford University. United States-China Relations
Program.
Environmental health.