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Finding Aid to the Moses Chaim Shelesnyak Papers, 1946-1979

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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Collection Summary

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Restrictions

Other Descriptive Information

Series Descriptions

Personal and Biographical, 1946-1985

General Correspondence

General Correspondence (Miscellaneous), 1936-1979

General Correspondence - Organizations, 1946-1974

U.S. Navy, 1942-1952

Weizmann Institute

Interdisciplinary Communication Associates Publications

Meetings and Conferences, 1946-1973

Reviews, 1954-1974

Writings, drafts

1989 Accession

 

Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division

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Descriptive Summary

Collection Number:MS C 405
Creator:Shelesnyak, M.C. (Moses Chaim), 1909-
Title:Moses Chaim Shelesnyak Papers
Dates:1946-1979
Quantity:7.9 linear feet, 19 boxes
Abstract:Dr. Shelesnyak received his doctorate from Columbia University, and taught physiology, pharmacology, and human growth and development. Includes biographical data, correspondence files with individuals and organizations, U.S. Navy material relating to arctic research, meetings, and conference data, reviews, and publications.

Biographical Note

Dr. Moses Shelesnyak received his doctorate from Columbia University, and taught physiology, pharmacology, and human growth and development. From 1942-49 he was engaged in research projects with the U.S. Navy, including the Canadian Arctic Expedition: Operation Musk Ox. In 1950 he moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and was active in reproductive physiology research and population-family planning. He returned to the U.S. in 1967 and directed the Interdisciplinary Communications Program of the Smithsonian Institution until 1977.

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Collection Summary

Correspondence, diaries, photographs, reports, clippings, publications, and printed matter. Includes biographical data, correspondence files with individuals and organizations, U.S. Navy material relating to arctic research, meetings, and conference data, reviews, and publications. Among the correspondents are Hans Lindner, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Gregory Pincus, Vilhjalmur and Evelyn Stefansson, and Solly Zuckerman.

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Restrictions

Restrictions

Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/custserv-email.html.

Copyright

NLM does possess copyright to the collection. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/custserv-email.html.

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Index Terms

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MeSH Subjects
Endocrinology
Family Planning
Physiology
Reproduction
Personal Names
Lindner, Hans R.
Ottesen-Jensen, Elise, 1886-
Pincus, Gregory, 1903-1967
Stefansson, Evelyn Schwartz Baird, 1913-
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962
Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron, 1904-
Corporate Names
Interdisciplinary Communications Program
Mekhon Vaitsman le-mada
Smithsonian Institution
Weizmann Institute of Science
Geographic Names
Arctic Regions
Israel

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Administrative Information

Prefered Citation

[Call Number, Collection Name, Series Number], Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, USA.

Provenance

Acquired in 1984.

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Series Descriptions

 

Personal and Biographical, 1946-1985

Box
1Biographical Data
1Membership lists and cards
1Certificates
1Oliver Bird Trust and Award, 1957-1959
1Lectures and addresses - announcements
Family correspondence, 1961-1973
1Roslyn Shelesnyak (wife), 1963
1Henry Shelesnyak (son), 1966-1973
1Franz and Betty Sondheimer (daughter), 1961-1972
1Leon L. Cypress (uncle), 1964-1966
1Photographs [see index],
1Diaries, 9146, 1949-1950, 1953-1955
1Travel Diaries, 1966?, 1971
2Diaries, 1956-1959, 1964-1967, 1970-1974
3Diaries, 1975-1977
3Appointment calendars, 1957-1962, 1967-1978
3Clippings, 1947-1966
3Clippings (in Hebrew)

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General Correspondence

Box
4Barnea, Ayalla, 1967-1969
4Behre, Charles, 1947-1949
4Bignami, Giorgio, 1961-1971
4Binning, Dennis, 1971-1974
4Borth, Rudi, 1962-1972
4Bovet, Daniel, 1954-1972
4Boving, Bent, 1956-1964
4Bush, Ian E., 1962-1965
4Challinor, David, 1971-1977
4Chambon, Yves, 1954-1968
4Chang, M.C., 1955-1974
4Chang, M.C., 1955-1974
4Cobb, John C., 1964-1970
4Cooper, Joseph, 1972-1974
4Courrier, Robert, 1957-1967
4De-Shalit, Amos, 1967-1968
4De Watteville, Hubert, 1959-1971
4Donini, Piero, 1961-1966
4Eban, Abba,
4Field, John, 1948-1949
4Fisher, Harwood, 1973-1974
4Gaekwar, 1973-1974
4Galler, Sidney, 1962-1967
4Gell, Charles F., 1959-1967
4Goldsmith, E.D., 1959-1960
4Guttmacher, Alan, 1962-1973
4Hartman, Carl, 1954-1964
4Hellman, Louis, 1970-1977
4Hertz, Roy, 1954-1959
4Houssay, Bernard, 1962-1967
4Innes-Taylor, Alan, 1948-1949
4Jackman, Albert H., 1947-1950
4Jailer, Joseph, 1954-1959
4Johnson, T.H., 1958-1959
4King, Barry G., 1952-1965
4Kisch, Eldad, 1965-1968
4Kraicer, Peretz, 1963-1975
4Kuempel-Holmes, Jane, 1951-1968
5Lebensohn, Zigmond, 1953-1977
5Lindner, Hans, 1965-1969
5Loewe, Walter S. and Ida, 1954-1966
5Marcus, George, 1965-1976
5Mayer, Gaston, 1959-1974
5Meir, David, 1967-1968
5Meites, Joseph, 1955-1974
5Mendelssohn, Henrich, 1967-1973
5Michaelis, Anthony, 1959-1977
5Muhlbock, Otto, 1956-1966
5Nazer, Isam, 1973-1976
5Nelkin, William, 1969-1970
5Novak, Franc, 1966-1970
5Nuriel, Ezra, 1967-1971
5Okediji, Olu, 1973-1975
5Ottesen-Jensen, Elise, 1957-1971
5Parkes, Alan, 1955-1976
5Pincus, Gregory, 1954-1966
5Psychoyos, A., 1960-1971
6Ramsey-Klee, Diane, 1969-1977
6Reed, John, 1949-1970
6Rothschild, Irving, 1961-1966
6Rothschild, Victor, 1956-1968
6Schayer, Richard W., 1957-1967
6Schroeder, Henry A., 1946-1969
6Shechter, Betty, 1966-1970
6Sinding, Steven, 1972-1976
6Smelser, George, 1951-1962
6Stefansson, Vilhjalmur and Evelyn, 1946-1953
6Strauss, Jerome, 1967-1972
6Tachi, Chikashi, 1967-1974
6Tausk, Marius, 1958-1972
6Tullner, William, 1966-1967
6Varavudhi, Puttipongse, 1967-1968
6Velasco Suarez, Manuel, 1972-1974
6Villee, Claude, 1959-1967
6Vollmer, Irwin, 1957-1970
6Westman, Axel, 1955-1959
6Von Euler, U.S., 1957-1970
6Weisgal, Meyer, 1956-1967
6Witschi, Emil, 1963-1967
6Yitzchaki, Rina, 1967-1974
6Zuckerman, Solly, 1955-1976
6Zuckerman, Solly - Misc. materials

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General Correspondence (Miscellaneous), 1936-1979

Box
7A - G
8H - R
9S - Z

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General Correspondence - Organizations, 1946-1974

Box
9Aero Medical Association, 1946-1949
9Agency for International Development, 1971-1974
9A.I.D. - El Salvador, 1973-1974
9American Psychiatric Association Task Force, 1972-1974
9American Society for the Study of Sterility, 1960-1965
9Biological Sciences Communication Project, 1970-1973
9Brush Foundation, 1960-1961
9Center for Population Research - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1970-1975
9CIBA Foundation, 1950-1977
9Commercial Solvents Corporation, 1963-1967
9Committee for International Coordination of National Research in Demography, 1972-1974
9Corporacion Centro Regional De Poblacion, 1975-1977
9East-West Center, 1973-1975
9Encyclopedia Americana, 1947
9European Society for the Study of Drug Toxicity, 1963-1966
9International Brain Research Organization - UNESCO, 1960-1967
10International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1957-1977
10I.P.P.F. - Medical Committee, 1963-1971
10I.P.P.F. - Research Committee, 1959-1967
10International Society of Endocrinology, 1964-1967
10International Society for Research in the Biology of Reproduction, 1965-1971
10Internet, 1973-1974
10Mansys Associates, 1961-1970
10National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968-1972
10N.V. Organon, 1958-1967
10Office of Naval Research - Orr Reynolds, 1953-1955
10Office of Naval Research - Sidney Galler, 1955-1961
10Office of Naval Research - London Office, 1955-1961
10Playtex, 1961
10Population Council, 1953-1977
10Population Crisis Committee, 1968-1974
10Reproduction Crisis Committee, 1968-1974
10Sandoz, 1954-1979
10Schering A.G., 1969-1970
10Smithsonian, 1966-1967
10Smithsonian, 1966-1977
10Society for the Study of Fertility, 1957-1968
10Society Royale Belge de Gynecologie et D' Obstetrique, 1957-1958
10Syntex, 1961-1972
11Undersea Exploration Society of Israel, 1962-1970
11Unesco, 1953-1960
11University of Chile, 1963-1967
11Weizmann Institute, 1953-1969
11Weizmann Institute - American Committee, 1966-1969
11Wellcome Foundation, 1957-1967
11Worcester Foundation, 1967-1975
11Worcester Foundation Training Program, 1958-1964
11World Health Organization, 1962-1977
11W.H.O. - R.T. Hill, 1964-1966
11W.H.O. - A. Kessler, 1966-1967
11Organizations - Miscellaneous, 1936-1977

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U.S. Navy, 1942-1952

Box
12Documents, 1942-1949
12Official Correspondence, 1942-1952
12Duty Orders, 1942-1952
12Travel Orders, 1945-1949
12Projects and Reports, 1942-1945
12Patents, 1943-1944
12Appointments-Conferences, Boards, 1944-1949
12Program Proposals, 1945
12Statement Before Senate Armed Services Committee, 1948?
12Notes on Leaving the Office of Naval Research, 1949
Arctic Materials, 1946-1950, 1969
12Navy Arctic Program - Proposals, 1946-1948
12"Arctic Laboratory" (Partial MS) - John Reed and Andreas G. Ronhovde
12Papers on the Arctic, 1946-1950
12Seminar on Problems of the Arctic - Papers, 1949-1950
12Naval Arctic Research Laboratory Symposium, 1969
Operation Musk Ox - Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1945-1946
12Supply Documents, 1945-1946
12Transcription of Letters, 1945-1946
12Personal Letters, 1946
12Miscellaneous Material, 1946
13Log Books and Diaries, 1945-1946
13Diary Transcription, 1945-1946
13Daily Log, 1946
13Charts, 1946
13Arctic - Printed Matter
13Encylopedia Arctica, 1947-1950
13Encyclopedia Arctica - Drafts, 1948-1950

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Weizmann Institute

Box
13Printed Matter
Weizmann Institute, 1950-1966
14Research Reports, 1950-1965
14Israel Government - Miscellaneous, 1951-1962
14Research Reports - Birmingham, 1957-1958
14International Conference, 1959-1960
14Budgets - Sandoz Project, 1961-1962
14Yeda - Sandoz Project, 1961-1962
14Proposals and Reports - Institute of Biodynamics, 1961-1967
14Proposal drafte for W.H.O., 1962
14Grant Proposals, 1963-1964
14Inquiries re: Ergocornine, 1963-1964
14Research with Tel-Hashomer Hospital, 1963-1965
14Report - "Studies on the Mechanism of Nidation", 1964?
14Canadian West Mining Affair, 1964
14Research Reports - Sandoz, 1964-1965
14Kaltman and Company Affair, 1964-1965
14Re: Swedish Research Grants, 1964-1966
Interdisciplinary Communications Program, 1967-1975
14Miscellaneous Material, 1970-1975
14List of Participants - Conferences, 1967-1975
14Proposals, 1969-1971
14Budgets, 1970-1972
14Conferences, 1972-1973
14"Chronology of Events Relating to the Proposed Continuation of the I.P.P.A.", 1976
14Interdisciplinary Communication Associates, 1977
14I.C.P. Conferences, 1967-1975
15Interdisciplinary Communications Program - Printed Matter
15I.C.P. - Semi-Annual and Annual Reports, 1971-1975
16Transcript of Proceedings - Third Annual Meeting of the Advisory Council, International Program for Population Analysis, 1975

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Interdisciplinary Communication Associates Publications

Box
16Philosophy and Technology of Drug Assessment, Volume 1-7
16Utilization of Space Biosciences Technology, Volume 1

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Meetings and Conferences, 1946-1973

Box
17Meetings Attended, 1946-1949
17Papers and Remarks - Conferences, 1948-1970
17Conferences Attended - Programs, 1950-1973
17Bombay Seminar, 1955-1956
17Minutes - I.P.P.F. Committees, 1959-1968
17Meetings Attended - Misc. Minutes, 1960-1973
17National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - Puerto Rico Meeting, 1965-1966
17Meetings - Notes

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Reviews, 1954-1974

Box
17Child Development Abstracts - Reviews, 1954-1973
17Reviews of Grant Proposals - National Science Foundation, 1967-1973
17Review of Journal Manuscripts, 1969-1974
17Reviews of Contract Proposals - N.I.C.H.D., 1970-1971

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Writings, drafts

Box
17Drafts of Book Reviews
17Drafts of Publications
18Miscellaneous Typescripts
18"Steroids in Nidation" - George Marcus and M.C.S.
18Growth of Population: Consequences and Controls, ed. M.C. Shelesnyak, , 1969
18Ovum Implantation: Its Hormonal, Biochemical, Neurophysiological and Immunological Bases, Ed, M.C. Shelesnyak, 1969
18Publications and Reprints, 1930-1944
18Aviation Hygiene Training, 1943
19Publications and Reprints, 1945-1975
19Frontiers in the Teaching of Physiology: Computer Literacy & Simulation, ed. Charles S. Tidball and M.C.S., 1981
19Miscellaneous Printed Matter
20Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Population Growth, Belmont Conference Center, Maryland, 1971
20Shelesnyak Material in the Ford Foundationi Archives

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1989 Accession

Box
University of Wisconsin Materials
20Invertebrate Zoology notebook (Dr. Noland)
20Art History paper, 1928
20BA Thesis, University of Wisconsin (orginal and copy), 1930
1981 Nidation Symposium Materials, 1979-1985
21Background material and M.C.S. correspondence, 1985
21Miscellaneous correspondence, 1985
General Correspondence (all from 1985, except when noted), 1985, et al.
21Bowen, John (Syntex)
21Brandon, Janet
21De Feo, Vincent J.
21Dey, S.K., 1979, 1985
21Johnson, Donald 1979, 1981
21Kennedy, Thomas
21Lala, P.K.
21Leroy, Fernand
21Marcus, George
21Mead, Rodney
21Moulton, Bruce, 1984-1985
21Parr, Margaret
21Psychoyos, Alex
21Segal, Sheldon
21Tachi, Chikoshi
21Waserman, Manfred, 1984-1985
21Yitzchaki, Rina
21Yochim, Jerome
21Yoshinaga, Koji
21"Nidation History" : galley proofs and revisions
21Nidation: a Symposium Held In Honor of Professor M.C. Shelesnyak, ed. Koji Yoshinaga, 1986

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Other Descriptive Information


Addenda - Photographs

M.C. Shelesnyak - Portraits and photos taken at Weizmann Institute
Family Photographs

Dr. Shelesnyuak with colleauges and friends, including:

Abba Eban
Amalia Fleming
Shri Nehru
Elise Ottesen-Jensen
Michael Wilcox Perrin
S. Radhakrishnan
Lady Rama Rau
Shou-Town Tsou
Abbe Fulbert
You Lou

Dr. Shelesnyak and colleagues at Weizmann Institute, including:

andersen, Lucile
Adisman, Kenneth
Bakamjian, Vahram
Berelson, Bernard
Bloedorn, Fernando G.
Brown, Robert L.
Clark, R. Lee
Conley, John
Dietz, J. Herbert
Diedrich, William M.
Egerton, Milton T.
Everett, John
Folley, S.J.
Golden, Joshua
Healey, John E., Jr.
Hills, W.J.
Keith, Liza
Laney, William R.
Leavitt, Lewis A.
Lebensohn, Zigmond
Lennenberg, Edith
Liverman, Lonis W.
Loeb, Leo
Loewe, Walter S.
Lufburrow, William A.
MacComb, William S.
Martin, Richard G.
Moreton, Robert D.
Murphy, Eugene F.
Parsons, Langdon
Pool, J. Lawrence
Remine, W.H.
Sinding, Steven
Snyderman, Reuben K.
Stein, Justin J.
Velasco, Suarez, Manuel
Wilson, Vernon E.
Zondek, Bernard

Conferences:

Steroid Congress, Milan - M.C. Shelesnyak and M.C. Chang1966
Ford Foundation Conference On the Physiology of Human Reproduction, Venice1966
Shering Symposium IV, Venice. Includes: Hans Lindner, Gerhard Raspe, 1970
Interdisciplinary Communications Program Conferences, 1972-1974

Conference On The Philosophy And Technology Of Drug Assessment, 1973. Participants include:

Craig Burwell
R.L. Hodge
Louis Lasagna
Jerome Levine
Herbert Ley
Ake Liljestrand
Rudolf Preisig
Derek Quantock
Kumeo Shirota
Owen Wade

Other

First Aid Kit for Aviation Personnel, Designed by M.C. Shelesnyak, 1944
Operation Musk Ox - Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1945-1946
Arctic Scene
Man and Snowplane, 1946-1947?
U.S.S. Nautilus in the Arctic, 1931, 1937

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