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Call Number: SC0767
Creator:
Bernfield, Merton
Title: Merton Bernfield papers
Dates: 1974-1987
Physical Description:
17 linear feet (13 boxes)
Summary: These papers pertain only to Bernfield's teaching in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University and include syllabi,
lectures, exams, course readers, memoranda, slides used in the classes, and other papers.
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
This collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.
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.
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[Identification of item], Merton Bernfield Papers (SC0767). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Merton Bernfield, pediatrician and cell biologist, earned his medical degree at the University of Illinois in 1961. He was
a research associate with Marshall Nirenberg at the National Heart Institute before coming to Stanford in 1967, where he was
a professor in the medical school and in the university's School of Humanities and Sciences, serving as chair of the Program
in Human Biology. He left Stanford in 1989 to join the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He died in 2002.
These papers pertain only to Bernfield's teaching in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University and include syllabi,
lectures, exams, course readers, memoranda, slides used in the classes, and other papers.
Bernfield, Merton
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University. Program in Human Biology.
Biology--Study and teaching (Higher)
Human physiology.