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Call Number: SC0645
Creator:
Mosher, Harry S.
Title: Harry S. Mosher papers
Dates: 1944-2000
Physical Description:
37.5 Linear feet
Summary: Papers include correspondence, manuscripts and reprints,
research files, lab notebooks, grant files, and class materials.
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 the estate of Harry Mosher, 2002.
This collection is open for research.
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.
Harry S. Mosher Papers (SC0645). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Harry S. Mosher earned his bachelor's degree in 1937 from Willamette University and his
master's degree from Oregon State University in 1939. He taught briefly at Willamette
before earning his doctorate in organic chemistry from Pennsylvania State University in
1942; he remained at Penn during World War II as an assistant professor supervising
research on synthetic anti-malarial drugs for the National Research Council. He joined
the Stanford faculty in 1947 and taught until his retirement in 1981. During his career
at Stanford, Mosher taught organic chemistry and conducted research in a wide range of
areas, including natural products chemistry and stereochemistry. He co-authored more
than 140 research papers and a reference book titled ASYMMETRIC ORGANIC REACTIONS,
published in 1971. Mosher also elucidated the chemical structure of tetrodotoxin - an
extremely toxic molecule found in wild newts inhabiting Stanford's Lake Lagunita. Mosher
died in March of 2001.
Papers include correspondence, manuscripts and reprints, research files, lab notebooks,
grant files, and class materials.
Mosher, Harry S.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Chemistry--Study and teaching (Higher).
Chemistry, Organic.
Organic compounds--Synthesis.
Stereochemistry.
Tetrodotoxin.
Collection is unprocessed and in remote storage. For access, please contact the
University Archivist.