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Collection NatD : Daniel Nathans Collection

Description

Key

75851

Reference Code Element

NatD

Dates

1951-1999

Extent

140 cubic feet (110 boxes)

Creator

Personal name, Nathans, Daniel

Administrative/Biographical History

Daniel Nathans was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He was the youngest of eight children of Russian Jewish immigrants Samuel and Sarah Nathans. He received his BS in Chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1950. He then went to the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis where he was introduced to laboratory research working with pharmacologist Oliver Lowery. After receiving his MD in 1954, he served an internship at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital under Robert Loeb. Before returning to Columbia Presbyterian for a two year residency, Nathans was a Clinical Associate at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. From 1959-1962, he was a research associate in Fritz Lipman's lab at the Rockefeller Institute in New York where he conducted research in the burgeoning field of molecular biology.
Nathans was recruited by W. Barry Wood to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Microbiology Department in 1962 as assistant professor, and remained on the faculty until his death in 1999. He became a full professor in 1967, director of the Department of Microbiology in 1972, and director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in 1981. He served as interim president of the Johns Hopkins University from June 1995 until August 1996. He was a senior investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics from 1982 to 1999.
Nathans' work laid the cornerstone for the ensuing revolution in molecular biology. In 1978, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his colleague, Hamilton O. Smith, and with a Swiss scientist Werner Arber "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics." In 1993, Dr. Nathans was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science. In 1999, Johns Hopkins University established the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, named for Nathans and medical geneticist Victor McKusick.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1962-1999

Johns Hopkins University, Interim President, 1995-1996

Scope and Content

The Daniel Nathans Collection documents his entire career. Included are lab notebooks, reprints, reports, correspondence, photographs, and administrative documents. Laboratory notebooks make up a significant portion of the collection and document his research using bacterial viruses, tumor viruses (especially SV40), and use of restriction enzymes. The administrative documents cover his roles as chairman of the Department of Microbiology, later Molecular Biology and Genetics, senior investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and interim President of the Johns Hopkins University.
The collection includes memorabilia relating to the 1978 award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine to Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith for their discovery of restriction enzymes and the application of their discovery to molecular genetics. Included among the memorabilia are 10 photographs of the award ceremony, flags and a Nobel medal, press releases, reprints of their restriction enzyme research, articles by A. McGhee Harvey on Nobel Prize winners from Hopkins, and a transcript of a faculty meeting address, October l978, at which both Nathans and Smith spoke about their work.

Language

English

Access and Use

Conditions Governing Access Element

This collection may contain some restricted records. Materials pertaining to patients, students, employees, and human research subjects, as well as unprocessed collections and recent administrative records, carry restrictions on access. For more information about the policies and procedures for access, see the Archives Policy on Access and Use.

Access Restrictions

May include sensitive, restricted material

Use/Reproduction Restrictions

When citing material from this collection, credit The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. For permission to reproduce images, contact the holder of the copyright.

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2002

Processing Information

The Daniel Nathans Collection was inventoried by Janet Libonate in 2002 under the direction of Phoebe Evans Letocha.

Accession

2011-030

2009-142

2003-037

Composed Of

Found 109 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
1DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files A-M	198405677		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
2DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files M-Z	198405678		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
3DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Meeting Files	198405679		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
4DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Manuscripts, Correspondence, Internal	198405680		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
5DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Grant Files	198405681		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
6DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Subject Files A-G	198405682		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
7DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Subject Files G-S, Financial Records	198405683		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
8DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Funds, JHU Files L-P	198405684		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
9DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Funds, JHU Files S-V	198405685		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
10DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Financial Binders JHU	198405686		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
11DN- Dan Nathans Papers: General Files A-C	198405687		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
12DN- Dan Nathans Papers: General Files C-L	198405688		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
13DN- Dan Nathans Papers: General Files L-N, Correspondence	198405689		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
14DN- Dan Nathans Papers: General Files N-S, Correspondence	198405690		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
15DN- Dan Nathans Papers: General Files, Correspondence, Binders	198405691		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
16DN- Dan Nathans Papers: HHMI Files, A-B	198405692		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
17DN- Dan Nathans Papers: HHMI Files C-H	198405693		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
18DN- Dan Nathans Papers: HHMI Files D-P	198405694		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
19DN- Dan Nathans Papers: HHMI Files P-T	198405695		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
20DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files, Early Series, A-M	198405696		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
21DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Early Series A-B, N-P	198405697		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
22DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files Early Series D-M	198405698		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
23DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files Early Series J, Miscellaneous	198405699		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
24DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files, Personnel, Financial, Subject	198405700		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
25DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files, Reviews, Reference, Journals	198405701		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
26DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files, Reference, Tissue Culture	198405702		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
27DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Clone Files	198405703		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
28DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files, Early Series, A-E	198405704		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
29DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files Early Series E-I	198405705		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
30DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files Early Series J-M	198405706		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
31DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files Early Series O-S	198405707		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
32DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files Early Series T-Z	198405708		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
33DN- Dan Nathans Papers: JHU Files, Foundations, Committees, Organizations	198405709		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
34DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Strategic Planning Committee	198405710		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
35DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Fellowships and Reference Files	198405711		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
36DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Reference Files on Biological Topics	198405712		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
37DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Slides	198405713		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
38DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Slides	198405714		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
39DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Meetings	198405715		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
40DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Meetings	198405716	1980s	Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
41DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Meetings	198405717	1989-1991	Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
42DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Meetings	198405718	1991-1993	Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
43DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Meetings	198405719	1993-1994	Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
44DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Meetings	198405720	1994-1995	Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
45DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Meetings, Reprints	198405721	1995	Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
46DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Files, Institutions, Reprints	198405722		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
47DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Reprints	198405723		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
48DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Reprints	198405724		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
50DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Manuscripts, Reprints	198405726		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection
51DN- Dan Nathans Papers: Manuscripts, Reprints	198405727		Box	CollectionNatD- Daniel Nathans Collection

Related Artifacts

Found 1 record(s)

Available Actions	Artifact Numbersort by Artifact Number ascending	Titlesort by Title ascending
	18A	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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