Banner: NIH History Day, 2004

Second Annual NIH History Day
Tuesday, 21 September 2004

The Office of NIH History is pleased to announce that the second annual NIH History Day will take place on the NIH campus in Bethesda on Tuesday, 21 September 2004. The program will include welcoming remarks by NIH Deputy Director Dr. Raynard Kington, an illustrated lecture and Office of NIH History staff at tables around campus eager to collect documents, photographs and artifacts from the NIH community.

Donate Historical Items
Artifacts, Photos and Documents

Collections Stations:
12 noon - 1 pm
Building Lobbies 50, 10, 37

Sponsored by the Office of NIH History
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

For reasonable accommodations please contact the Office of NIH History at (301) 496-6610. For TTY callers, please call the above number through the Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 (Voice/TTY/ASCII/Spanish).

Office of NIH History
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, Room 5B38, MSC 2092
Bethesda, MD 20892-2092
Phone: 301 496 6610
Fax: 301 402 1434
Email:
History Day 2004 T-shirts will be available at R&W stores!

History Day Lecture
The Seven Virtues of Biography, or: What's the Use of Biographies of Life Scientists?

Thomas Söderqvist, Ph.D.
Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

3:00 pm
Lipsett Auditorium
NIH Clinical Center
Building 10
Reception and book signing to follow

With the formerly NIH-affiliated immunologist Niels Jerne as the point of departure, this illustrated lecture by historian and medical museum professional Thomas Söderqvist will address the question of what functions scientific biography may have in documenting the history of recent biomedicine.

Thomas Söderqvist
Thomas Söderqvist  

Thomas Söderqvist is Professor of History of Medicine and Head, Medical Museion, at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Dr. Söderqvist’s book, Science as Autobiography: The Troubled Life of Niels Jerne.
Dr. Söderqvist's
book		  

Dr. Söderqvist's book, Science as Autobiography: The Troubled Life of Niels Jerne (Yale University Press, 2003) will be available for purchase at the FAES bookstore in Building 10, B1L101. Please purchase the book in advance if you would like Dr. Söderqvist to sign it after his lecture.

For a review of the book, click here.
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