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Acknowledgments




About the contributors to the poster sessions

Jesse B. Bump, A.B. is a graduate student in the Department of History of Science, Medicine and Technology of The Johns Hopkins University. In Dr. Daniel Todes's course on the history of laboratories, he began research on Curt Richter's use of the dermometer. This initial research has evolved into a larger ongoing study. For more information about his dermometer project, see the abstract of his research.

Frank R. Hubbard, Ph.D. is a software engineer and consultant with FRH, Inc. in Baltimore.

Christine M. Keiner, B.A. is a graduate student in the Department of History of Science, Medicine and Technology of The Johns Hopkins University. As an assignment for Dr. Daniel Todes's course on the history of laboratories, she conducted research on the social and scientific organization of the Psychobiology Laboratory. For more information about her study, see the abstract of her paper.

Peter S. J. Lees, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Nancy McCall, M.L.A. is Archivist of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

Lisa A. Mix, M.L.A. is Coordinator of Processing for The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

Gerard P. Smith, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College.

James W. Wirth, M.D., Ph.D. is Director of the Eating and Weight Disorders Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Project Advisors

We are immensely grateful to the following project advisors for being so generous with their time, guidance, and support:

Jesse B. Bump, A.B., Graduate student in History of Science, Medicine and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University

Frederick T. DeKuyper, J.D., Associate General Counsel, The Johns Hopkins University

Christine M. Keiner, B.A., Graduate student in History of Science, Medicine
and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University

Harold Lehman, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Medical Informatics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Paul R. McHugh, M.D., Director of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Robert E. Miller, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Director of Pathology Informatics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Timothy Moran, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Ardis O'Connor, B.S., Retired Chief Technician, The former Psychobiology Laboratory

Daniel Todes, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History of Science, Medicine and Technology The Johns Hopkins University

James B. Wirth, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Eating and Weight Disorders Program The Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Web Team

Marjorie Winslow Kehoe, Lisa A. Mix, and Nancy McCall collaborated on the design and construction of the web site.

We extend special thanks to Marjorie W. Kehoe for design of the conference site and her dedicated effort in its construction.

(Look at a trial multimedia introduction to this website.)

We are also most grateful to our many colleagues who have collaborated with us in the development of the Richter conference site. Special thanks go the following individuals for their fine contributions:

Keying - Frances Dukissis, The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives

Editing - Linda Forlifer, Forewords, Inc., Baltimore, MD

Preparation of Data

Database design - Frank R. Hubbard, Ph.D., FRH, Inc., Baltimore, MD

Data coding - James Peterson, Ph.D., Sociometrics, Inc., Los Altos, CA

Data entry - Hi-Tech Processing Services, Inc., Baltimore, MD

Imaging

Michael Agelopas Photography, Baltimore, MD

Hi-Tech Processing Services, Inc., Baltimore MD

The Image Foundry, Baltimore, MD

Audio

Jack Sheehan, The Hopkins Health Newsfeed

Software and hardware support

Gerard Shorb, The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives

Server support

David Wang, The Genome Database, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

George Ciervo, III, The Genome Database, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Source Materials for Conference Site

All of the documents represented on the Web Conference site are from The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The examples shown are from the following collections:

The Records of the Psychobiology Laboratory
The Adolf Meyer Papers
The Records of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic
The Biographical File of John B. Watson
The Papers and Photographs of Curt P. Richter

For information about other archival holdings, visit the Web site of The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives.

Photograph credits:

Doris Ullman - photograph of Adolph Meyer
Marjorie Winslow Kehoe - photographs of Psychobiology Laboratory "deconsecration"

Intellectual Property Guidelines

The intellectual property guidelines for the World Wide Web site of The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives also apply to the Richter conference site on the World Wide Web. For information about use of intellectual property from this Web site see Rights and Reproductions.

Funding

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has funded the development of the conference site on the World Wide Web.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the University of Michigan have funded the research fellowships of Nancy McCall and Lisa A. Mix

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