Guide to the Bruce Stocker Papers SC0727

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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Bruce Stocker papers

Identifier/Call Number: SC0727

Physical Description: 38 Linear Feet

Date (inclusive): 1972-2004

Language of Material: Undetermined .

Information about Access

The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

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Cite As

[identification of item], Bruce Stocker Papers (SC0727). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical / Historical

Bruce Stocker was born in Surrey, England on 26 May 1917 and was educated at King's College London and Westminster Hospital Medical School. He was Guinness Professor of Microbiology at the University of London until 1965. He was Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University from 1966 to 1987. In 1966 Stocker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in Palo Alto, California, on 30 August 2004.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Microbiology.

Immunology.

Stanford University -- Faculty.

Papers ARCH-2004-305

Language of Material: English.

Box 1

Correspondence files K – Z

Box 2

Lab papers and correspondence: largely unfoldered, includes reprints and publications and rolodex cards

Box 3

Lab papers and correspondence: mostly unfoldered; includes patent file and computer disks

Box 4

Lab papers and correspondence: files for P. H. Makela, Ron Brown, Lee W. Riley, Thrasher Research Fund, and others. Includes unfoldered materials and some photographs of microbes.

Box 5

Binder "Chem Inventory" and Binder "Auxo. Virulence" [assorted articles]

Box 5

Large amount of loose correspondence/articles/etc.

Box 6

Correspondence files A – I

Box 7

Lab papers and correspondence: files for C. E. Hormaeche, David Roesel, Edwin P. Rock, N.A. Nnalue, and others. Also includes loose correspondence, articles, computer disks, and a file of photos of students.

Box 8

Lab notesbooks and binders of articles

Box 9

Lab notebooks #43 (1987) thru #44 (1989). Most kept by Marianne Hovi

Box 10

Lab notebooks #56 (1989) thru #70 (1993). All kept by Marianne Hovi.

Box 11

Lab notebooks #71 (1993) thru #85 (1997). All kept by Marianne Hovi.

Box 12

Lab notebooks #86 (1997) thru #99 (2004). Kept by Marianne Hovi and Bruce Stocker.

Box 13

Strain notebooks 1972-2002

Box 14

Strain notebooks 1986-87 and undated

Box 15

Strain notebooks 1978-2001 and undated; and Phage stock books (4 v.) 1974-1990

Box 16

Reprints and history

Box 17

Velvets and strain replicator

Addenda, 2005-023 ARCH-2005-023

Box 1

Notebooks, correspondence, annotated reprints of others' work, miscellaneous notes, lab notes 1950s-70s

Box 2

Correspondence files (mostly 1960s), typescript articles, research notes, and photos of stains 1950s-70s

Box 2

"Microbial Genetics Bulletin," Dept. of Genetics, Carnegie Institute of Washington (mimeographed) 1960-64

Box 3

Correspondence, research notes, typescript articles by others 1963-71

Box 3

Patent and legal correspondence and papers 1980s-90s

Box 4

Patent and legal correspondence and papers 1980s-90s

Box 4

Correspondence files 1950s-60s

Box 4

Two notebooks; two binders (rehoused in folders)

Box 4

Reprints of Stocker's articles

Box 4

Correspondence, articles, course materials, etc., to be sorted

Box 4

Note cards

Box 5

Note cards, notes

Box 5

Correspondence files 1950s-60s

Box 5

Notebook "Stock Pedigr[ee] Misc TlH" [rehoused in a folder]

Box 5

Research and correspondence files 1970s

Box 5

Assorted research files, some from meetings attended 1960s-70s

Box 6

Correspondence, research notes, student papers, class materials, largely not in folders

Box 7

Water damaged items needing conservation attention