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Sources Guide: Immunology and Virology

Personal papers

Societies, Associations and Institutions

Other collections

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

See also: Vaccination and Vaccines

Personal Papers

Sir Peter MEDAWAR (1915-1987), medical scientist, Director of the National Institute for Medical Research, 1962-1971 PP/PBM
The ‘foremost biologist of his generation’, whose work created a new branch of science, the immunology of transplantation. Laboratory notebooks and files on research, 1943-74, but little surviving correspondence pre-1980s

Maurice Henry PAPPWORTH (1910 – 1994) Physician, Medical Tutor and Ethicist PP/MHP
Correspondence, articles and newspaper cuttings concerning the ethical issues surrounding brain death and organ transplants, 1965 –91, n.d.

William F J M THOM (1915-2007), DTM&H PP/WTH
A little material relating to allergy in Kuwait, 1967-70

Societies, Associations, and Institutions

BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY (f. 1911) SA/BIO
Material relating to the Immunology Group, 1967-95; some items relating to immunological research of Dr Cesar Milstein, c. 1975, and others

BRITISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY (f. 1956) SA/BSI
Archives of society, 1956-98; papers of Prof RRA Coombs, 1956-87; material on history of society

MEDICAL RESEARCH CLUB (f.1891) SA/MRC
Forum for discussion of original work in general and pathological science. Minute books to 1974, proposals books to 1948, history of the club (1992)

STRANGEWAYS RESEARCH LABORATORY (f. 1905 as CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH HOSPITAL) SA/SRL
Established by TSP Strangeways specifically to investigate auto-immune disorders such as arthritis and rheumatism: records, 1900s-1970s

WELLCOME ARCHIVES: Bureau of Scientific Research WA/BSR
Includes items relating to immunisation and virus research, 1913-38

WELLCOME FOUNDATION WF
Records of pharmaceutical company include material relating to immunological research, 1940s-90s

Other collections

Sir Christopher Howard ANDREWES (1896-1989) virologist; Deputy Director, National Institute of Medical Research, 1952-1961 GC/168
Diaries and variological notebooks [1910]-1927; research notebooks, common cold and influenza, 1930-3; notes on international congresses, 1950s-60s.

Leslie COLLIER (b.1921) virologist GC/153
Papers re trachoma research, 1957-71.

George William Marshal FINDLAY (1893-1952) GC/14
43 volumes of research notes and abstracts of medical literature, including re viruses and rickettsia, 1941-5

Professor Forrest FULTON (1913-1971), Professor of Virology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine GC/177
Research and teaching materials and publications 1940s-60s

INTERFERON ARCHIVE GC/267
Personal accounts, and related materials, on the development of interferon and cytokine research up to c. 1970

Dr Hideo NOGUCHI (1876-1928) GC/180
Photocopies of letters, 1905-27, to Dr Thorvald Madsen (1870-1957) of the Danish National Serum Laboratory

Sir (James) Keith ROSS (1927-2003) GC/238
Pioneer of heart transplantation in UK: papers relating to this 1960s-90s

WELLCOME WITNESS SEMINARS GC/253
Correspondence, photos, tapes, etc of Witness Seminars 'Self and Not-Self: A History of Autoimmunity', Feb 1995, and 'The MRC Common Cold Unit', May 1997

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