TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Collection Summary
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Restrictions
Series Descriptions
Biographical Materials and Unpublished Manuscripts, 1970-1989
Correspondence, 1978-1990
National Institutes of Health Centennial, 1983-1987
Laboratory Notebooks, 1937-1955
Reprints, 1936-1961
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Finding Aid to the DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Papers, 1936-1990
Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
Processed by Mildred Asbell
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Dan Jenkins
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| Collection Number: | MS C 474 |
| Creator | Stetten, DeWitt, Jr. |
| Title | DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Papers
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| Dates: | 1936-1990 |
| Quantity: | 3.8 linear feet (9 boxes) |
| Abstract: | DeWitt Stetten, Jr., informally know as Hans, was a noted biochemist and Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health. The collection primarily documents Stetten's post-NIH activities between 1979 and 1990 when he acted as a consultant to the NIH, especially through his personal correspondence which makes up the bulk of the collection. |
DeWitt Stetten, Jr., informally know as Hans, was a noted biochemist and Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health. He held an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and doctoral degrees in medicine and biochemistry from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He taught at several new England medical schools before assuming his career at the NIH in 1954. After a stint as dean of Rutgers University Medical School, he returned to the NIH in 1974 to become deputy director. One of his most notable accomplishments was the drafting of guidelines on genetic engineering research in 1976. He also founded the NIH's DeWitt Stetten Museum of Medical Research.
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The collection primarily documents Stetten's post-NIH activities between 1979 and 1990 when he acted as a consultant to the NIH, especially through his personal correspondence which makes up the bulk of the collection. Some of his early laboratory experiments are documented in the Reprints series and in his lab notebooks (1937-1955). His work on the NIH's centennial is also reflected in this collection.
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Restrictions
Restrictions
Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.
Copyright
NLM does not possess copyright to the collection. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.
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| MeSH Subjects |
| | Biochemistry |
| | DNA |
| | Genetic Engineering |
| Corporate Names |
| | National Institutes of Health (U.S.) |
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[Call Number, Collection Name, Series Number], Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, USA.
Gift - received 11/21/90. Accession 657.
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Biographical Materials and Unpublished Manuscripts, 1970-1989
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| Box | Folder |
| | Personal, 1970-1989 |
| 1 | 1 | | Biography |
| 1 | 2 | | Bibliography |
| 1 | 3 | | Memoirs, 1983 |
| 1 | 4 | | Tributes and Honors (Including NIH Museum of Medical Research), 1979-1989 |
| 1 | 5 | | National Institutes of Health Personnel File and Security Clearance (Stetten, DeWitt), 1970-1987 |
| 1 | 6 | | Family: Legal Matters, 1980-1984 |
| 1 | 7 | | Stetten, Gail |
| 1 | 8 | | Personal correspondence, 1982-1988 |
| 1 | 9 | | Favorite poems |
| 1 | 10 | | Home Care Arrangements, 1982-1984 |
| | Unpublished manuscripts, 1984; 1987 |
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| 1 | 11 | | "The Frenzy to Publish" |
| 1 | 12 | | Specialization: "Lowell Lecture Series in Medicine at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (not delivered)", 1984 |
| 1 | 13 | | "A Message from the Renaissance", 1987 |
| 1 | 14 | | "Imaginary Communications Between William Harvey and Galileo", n.d |
| | Reprints |
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| 1 | 15 | | Stetten reprints (includes "Recombinant DNA and Genetic Experimentation", "Aspects of the History and the Natural History of Gout," "Basic Sciences in Medicine: The Example of Gout") |
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Correspondence, 1978-1990
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| Box | Folder |
| 2 | 1 | January - March, 1978 |
| 2 | 2 | April - May, 1978 |
| 2 | 3 | June - August, 1978 |
| 2 | 4 | September - December, 1978 |
| 2 | 5 | January - March, 1979 |
| 2 | 6 | April - August, 1979 |
| 2 | 7 | September - October, 1979 |
| 2 | 8 | November - December, 1979 |
| 2 | 9 | January - April, 1980 |
| 2 | 10 | May - June, 1980 |
| 2 | 11 | July - August, 1980 |
| 2 | 12 | September - December, 1980 |
| 2 | 13 | January - March, 1981 |
| 2 | 14 | April - September, 1981 |
| 2 | 15 | October - December, 1981 |
| 3 | 1 | January - February, 1982 |
| 3 | 2 | March - May, 1982 |
| 3 | 3 | June - August, 1982 |
| 3 | 4 | September - December, 1982 |
| 3 | 5 | January - March, 1983 |
| 3 | 6 | April - June, 1983 |
| 3 | 7 | July - September, 1983 |
| 3 | 8 | October - December, 1983 |
| 3 | 9 | January - March, 1984 |
| 3 | 10 | April - July, 1984 |
| 3 | 11 | August - December, 1984 |
| 3 | 12 | January - March, 1985 |
| 3 | 13 | April - August, 1985 |
| 3 | 14 | September - December, 1985 |
| 3 | 15 | January - June, 1986 |
| 3 | 16 | July - December, 1986 |
| 4 | 1 | January - May, 1987 |
| 4 | 2 | June - December, 1987 |
| 4 | 3 | January - April, 1988 |
| 4 | 4 | May - December, 1988 |
| 4 | 5 | March - May, 1989 and 1990 |
| | Correspondence on blindness, 1981-1989 |
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| 4 | 6 | | New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) article, 1981 |
| 4 | 7 | | Correspondence with ophthalmologists, 1981-1982 |
| 4 | 8 | | Correspondence with other Doctors, 1981 |
| 4 | 9 | | Correspondence with other Doctors, 1982 |
| 4 | 10 | | Correspondence with other Doctors, 1983 |
| 4 | 11 | | Correspondence with other Doctors, 1984-1989 |
| | Subjects, 1971-1989 |
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| 5 | 1 | | Fraud in Science, 1984-1985 |
| 5 | 2 | | Intramural Research Seminars, September - December, 1982 |
| 5 | 3 | | Intramural Research Seminars, August - December, 1988 |
| 5 | 4 | | Richard Lounsbery Award Nomination: Leder, Peter, 1978 |
| 5 | 5 | | Richard Lounsbery Award Nomination: Howley, Peter, 1984 |
| 5 | 6 | | Marine Biological Laboratory, 1979-1987 |
| 5 | 7 | | Marine Biological Laboratory (Marney R. Stetten Scholarship Fund), 1983-1984 |
| | | National Institutes of Health, 1982; 1988 |
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| 5 | 8 | | | Memos to the Director, 1982 |
| 5 | 9 | | | Privatization, 1988 |
| | | NIH/PHS History, 1966-1982 |
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| 5 | 10 | | | Historical Objects: Public Health Service, 1966-1968 |
| 5 | 11 | | | Historical Objects: Pubic Health Service, 1971, 1979-1980 |
| 5 | 12 | | | National Institutes of Health Historian Search, 1979 |
| 5 | 13 | | | History of Intermural Science at National Institutes of Health, 1979-1981 |
| 5 | 14 | | Nuclear Weapons Statement, 1981-1982 |
| 5 | 15 | | Recombinant DNA, 1978-1981 |
| 5 | 16-17 | | | Bioessays, 1984 |
| 5 | 18 | | | Bioessays, July - October, 1986 |
| 5 | 19 | | | Bioessays, October - December, 1986 |
| 5 | 20 | | | Bioessays, 1987 |
| 5 | 21 | | Witkop, Bernard, 1979-1988 |
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National Institutes of Health Centennial, 1983-1987
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| Box | Folder |
| 6 | 1 | 1983-1985 |
| 6 | 2 | Television Special, 1984-1985 |
| 6 | 3 | Television Special Financing, 1985-1986 |
| 6 | 4 | Cultural Events Committee, 1985 |
| 6 | 5 | Committee: Minutes, 1986 |
| 6 | 6 | Committee, 1985-1986 |
| 6 | 7 | Committee: Briefing Book, July 24, 1986 |
| 6 | 8 | Underwriters Briefing Book, June 24, 1986 |
| 6 | 9 | Kit, etc., 1987 |
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Laboratory Notebooks, 1937-1955
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| Box | Folder |
| 7 | 1 | June 7, 1937 |
| 7 | 2 | G. Boxer, Book 1, 1942-1943 |
| 7 | 3 | Juan Salcedo, Jr. Laboratory Notebook in Qualitative Organic Chemistry, Laboratory Notebook in Biochemistry Research, Columbia University, 1942-1943 |
| 7 | 4 | D.J. Ingle - D. Stetten, 1951-1953 |
| 7 | 5 | Isaac D. Welt, Ingle-Stetten-Welt Experiment, 1951-1953 |
| 7 | 6 | Gastric HC1, Adele Karp, Book 1, 1948-1949 |
| 7 | 7 | Gastric HC1, Adele Karp, Book 2 , [1949] |
| 7 | 8 | Dr. Stetten, 1944-1945 |
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Reprints, 1936-1961
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| Box | Folder |
| | Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, 1936-1943 |
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| 8 | 1 | | Index, 1936-1943 |
| 8 | 2 | | Bacteriology, Mycology, 1936-1943 |
| 8 | 3 | | Physics, Physiology, Aviation Medicine, 1936-1943 |
| 8 | 4 | | Fatigue, Employment Health, 1936-1943 |
| 8 | 5 | | Miscellaneous, 1936-1943 |
| | Laboratory of Physical Biology, 1949-1961 |
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| 8 | 6 | | Molecular Biophysics, 1949 |
| 8 | 7 | | Physiological Physics, 1949 |
| 8 | 8 | | Nuclear Radiation Biology, 1949 |
| 8 | 9 | | Miscellaneous, 1949 |
| 8 | 10 | | Molecular Biophysics, 1950 |
| 8 | 11 | | Physiological Physics, 1950 |
| 8 | 12 | | Miscellaneous, 1950 |
| 9 | 1 | | Physiological Physics, 1951 |
| 9 | 2 | | Low Energy Radiation Biology, 1951 |
| 9 | 3 | | Molecular Biophysics, 1951 |
| 9 | 4 | | Nuclear Radiation Biology, 1951 |
| 9 | 5 | | Physiological Physics, 1953 |
| 9 | 6 | | Nuclear Radiation Biology, 1953 |
| 9 | 7 | | Low Energy Radiation Biology, 1953 |
| 9 | 8 | | Molecular Biophysics, 1954 |
| 9 | 9 | | Physiology, 1954 |
| 9 | 10 | | Molecular Biophysics, 1954 |
| 9 | 11 | | Photobiology, 1954 |
| 9 | 12 | | Physical Biochemistry, 1954 |
| 9 | 13 | | Physical Biochemistry, 1955 |
| 9 | 14 | | Physiology, 1955 |
| 9 | 15 | | Molecular Biophysics, 1955 |
| 9 | 16 | | Photobiology, 1955 |
| 9 | 17 | | Bibliography of publications, 1936-1940 |
| 9 | 18 | | Bibliography of publications, 1941-1944 |
| 9 | 19 | | Bibliography of publications, 1945-1946 |
| 9 | 20 | | Bibliography of publications, 1947-1948 |
| 9 | 21 | | Bibliography of publications, 1949-1950 |
| 9 | 22 | | Bibliography of publications, 1951-1955 |
| 9 | 23 | | Bibliography of publications, 1956-1961 |
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