Jacques Loeb papers, 1889-1924.
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Mixed materialsLanguage: English, German Description: 11,000 items; 60 containers plus 1 oversize; 24 linear feetSubject(s): - Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927 -- Correspondence
- Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 -- Correspondence
- Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978 -- Correspondence
- De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971 -- Correspondence
- Ehrlich, Paul, 1854-1915 -- Correspondence
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Correspondence
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Correspondence
- Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 -- Correspondence
- Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 1849-1936 -- Correspondence
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 -- Correspondence
- Loeb family -- Correspondence
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Bryology
- Bryophytes
- Chemistry
- Colloids
- Frogs
- Gelatin
- Genetics
- Osmosis
- Proteins
- Tropisms
- Zoology
- Educators
- Physiologists
Open to research.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, notebooks, biographical material, awards, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Loeb's career as a physiologist. Includes drafts of his books Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct (1918); Proteins and the Theory of Colloidal Behavior (1922); and Regeneration from a Physico-chemical Viewpoint (1924). Also includes Loeb's laboratory notebooks relating principally to his research on bryophytes, gelatin, and frogs, which led to his development of the tropism theory; and scientific articles on such subjects as colloid chemistry, genetics, osmosis, and proteins. Correspondents include Svante Arrhenius, Bernhard Berenson, James Bryant Conant, Paul Henry De Kruif, Paul Ehrlich, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Julian Huxley, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Harlow Shapley, and members of the Loeb family.
Physiologist and educator.
Collection material in English and German.
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