Autograph Collection.- Scientists

Autograph Collection.- Scientists

Collection of photographs and accompanying letters signed by prominent 20th century scientists, including: Pierre Mercier, Director of the Institut Pasteur from 1966 to 1971 (attractive black and white studio portrait, signed and inscribed in French to the Romanian scholars and scientists); Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics (typed letter accompanying some extracts -not included- from his early works, 18 June 1973); Auguste-Louis Loubatières, who participated in the development of sulfonamide -type antidiabetic drugs (typed letter, 11 February 1969); Norman Borlaug, Nobel Prize winner for his contributions to the 'green revolution' (two signed black and white photographs); Wolfgang Bargamnn, Director of the Anatomisches Institut deu Universitat Kiel (signature on official stationery); Edmond Fisher, Nobel Prize winner in 1992 (signed photograph); Joseph Melnick, American epidemiologist who performed breakthrough research on the spread of polio (signed photograph and accompanying typed letter); Rosalyn Yalow, co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology (signed photograph); Michael Heidelberger, the father of modern immunology (signed photograph); Ottorino Monaco (signed typed letter and photograph); Shiv Raj Kumar Chopra, Founder Head of the Department of Anthropology at Panjab University, Chandigarh (signed photograph and accompanying typed letter); Piero Leonardi, Italian geologist (signed photograph and business card); Elwyn L. Simons, American palaeontologist (signed photograph); Wallace O. Fenn, physiologist (two signed photographs); Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon (signed photograph); Harold Ellis, English surgeon (signed photograph); Erich Schmidt, physicist (typed letter enclosing a photograph bearing a printed signature); Kenneth Thimann, Professor of Biology at the University of California (typed letter accompanying an unsigned photograph, 12 July 1969); Amedeo Venturini, Italian heart surgeon (photograph signed on the verso and accompanying handwritten note, 8 May 1969); Richard J. Bing, Professor of Medicine (signed photograph and accompanying typed note, 11 August, 1981); Michael DeBakey, American cardiovascular surgeon (two signed photographs); Gerard 't Hooft, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions (signed photograph); Paul Lauterbur, American chemist (typed letter saying he doesn’t have "a supply of photographs to send in response to requests such as yours", 20 July 1994); Max-Paul Engelmeier (typed letter declining an invitation, 22 October 1968); also including cards signed by various Nobel Prize winners: Martinus J.G. Veltman, Robert Betts Laughlin, Richard E. Smalley, Robert Francis Furchgott, Heinrich Rohrer and Derek Barton; v.s. (qty)