Charles Barber Mueller research records
Scope and Contents
Consists of records related to research on phosphorous and red blood cells conducted by Charles Barber Mueller during his Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School in 1947. This research resulted in two 1951 publications in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, co-authored by Mueller and A. Baird Hastings: "The Rate of Transfer of Phosphorus Across the Red Blood Cell Membrane" and "Glycolysis and Phosphate Fractions of Red Blood Cells."
Dates
- Creation: 1947
Creator
- Mueller, Charles Barber, 1917- (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
0.01 cubic feet (1 file folder)Biographical / Historical
Charles Barber Mueller (1917-2014), A.B. University of Illinois-Champaign (now University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); M.D., 1942, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, was founding Chairman of the Department of Surgery at McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from 1967 to 1972. Following three years of service in the United States Navy during World War II, in 1946, Mueller entered a Rockefeller Fellowship in Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, studying under A. Baird Hastings. Mueller was elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1953 and served in a number of leadership positions for that organization.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gifted to the Harvard Medical Library by Ann Heider in 2015 (Accession #2015-068).
Processing Information
Processed by Charlotte Lellman in June 2021. Collection was processed according to Level 1 protocol.
Creator
- Mueller, Charles Barber, 1917- (Person)
Source
- Hastings, A. Baird (Albert Baird), 1895-1987 (Person)
- Rockefeller Foundation. (Organization)
Subject
- Mueller, Charles Barber, 1917- (Person)
- Title
- Mueller, Charles Barber, 1917-. Research records, 1946: A Finding Aid
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Charlotte Lellman
- Date
- 2021-03-12
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- med00851
Repository Details
Part of the Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine) Repository
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