Research Corporation ARCHIVES, 1896-present
DESCRIPTION
The Research Corporation Archive documents the history and ideals of Research Corporation, a foundation established in 1912 for the advancement of science. The Archive documents the period from 1896 to present day, with the bulk of material dating from the 1930s to 1950s. This is a living archive in which material will continue to be added as it becomes available. The archive is organized in nine distinct record series: history of the foundation; correspondence; biographical; grants; manuscripts; press; publications; activity files; and photographs. In addition, there are five “special archives,” containing the papers of people who have had a major impact on the foundation. These include Rachel Brown and Elizabeth Hazen; Frederick Gardner Cottrell; Grote Reber; Charles H. Townes; and Robert R. Williams and Robert E. Waterman. All series are fully processed.
The Archive’s primary focus is the history, resources, activities and people of the Foundation. These materials are available to the foundation community as well as scholars, authors and researchers who are interested in the impact of the foundation’s activities on the history of scientific development in America. To that end, the archive collects, preserves and makes available for research institutional archives, manuscripts, personal papers, organizational records, visual materials, books and memorabilia. Papers pertaining to former grantees are a particular strength of the collection.Sadly, only published materials have been collected for the past 30-plus years, leaving the archive lacking in recent communications and planning materials. Personal communication, the “human touch” as it were, is the heart of any archive. Collection development and records retention policies are being written to correct this omission. This is a living archive; as it becomes available, additional material will be incorporated.
HISTORY
Research Corporation is a foundation dedicated to support the advancement of science; to that end, the foundation’s grants making is directed toward scientific research. Today, Research Corporation funds the work of scientists who teach and conduct research in colleges and universities in the United States. The Research Corporation Archive serves as the final repository of the historical records of Research Corporation. It also documents a number of significant advancements in the history of science.
The early 1900s were an exciting time in the history of science. The Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s had opened wide the doors of exploration and discovery. Rapid industrial growth began in England and spread over the next 50 years to many other countries, including the United States. With progress came pollution and by the early 1900s, pollution from smokestacks was a significant problem in the country’s big cities. Looking for ways to deal with this nasty by-product of modernization, chemist Frederick Gardner Cottrell invented the electrostatic precipitator, a device that removes small polluting particles, such as smoke, dust or oil, from a gas (such as air) by passing the gas first through an electrically charged screen that gives a charge to the particles, then between two charged plates where the particles are attracted to one surface. The electrostatic precipitator not only reduced air pollution; it also retrieved valuable metals that had previously escaped from smokestacks.
Cottrell conceived Research Corporation as a business in which his revolutionary invention would be developed, sold and installed, using the proceeds to fund the work of other scientists. He first offered his patent to the Smithsonian Institution (with the proviso that the patent’s earnings would be usedd to fund scientific experimentation). Cottrell wanted to fund serendipitous, courageous (aka “rarely funded”) research. The Smithsonian declined Cottrell’s offer on the basis that it did not want to enter into the business of active operations (such as patent management), but Charles Doolittle Walcott, then-Secretary of the Smithsonian, offered to help Cottrell establish a foundation to achieve his goal. Research Corporation, established in 1912, was the result of their collaboration. By the early 1920s, the precipitator had earned enough money to begin funding research, largely through the auspices of the Smithsonian.
After Cottrell’s death in 1948, the foundation repositioned its focus. Managing the precipitator patent had provided excellent training in patent management, a new and important business in science. The foundation decided to concentrate its efforts in that direction, in order build the foundation’s endowment and thus increase its granting potential. During the 1940s and 1950s, several scientists, who admired Cottrell’s altruism, followed his example and donated their patents to the foundation. Key among those donations was the patents for nystatin, the synthesis of Vitamin B1 and cortisone. In 1954, Research-Cottrell, a wholly separate subsidiary, was established to continue work with electrostatic precipitators. In the mid-1960s, the Treasury Department suggested that tax-exempt foundations hold no more than 20 percent interest in for-profit entities. As a result, Research Corporation began divesting its shares of Research-Cottrell, first to 21 percent and by 1983 the Foundation no longer held any stock in the company. Research Corporation had completed its transition to patent management and eleemosynary endeavors.
In the early 1980s, in response to new tax laws, Research Corporation separated its for-profit and non-profit identities. The patent management facet of the foundation became a separate business, Research Corporation Technologies (http://www.rctech.com/), and the philanthropic side remained Research Corporation (http://rescorp.org).
Of course, the Archive reflects all of these changes, providing a fascinating example of the inspiration and fluidity required to influence science.
ACQUISITION
These papers were created by the foundation.
ACCESS
In order to ensure privacy, minutes of Board of Directors meetings less than 25 years old are restricted. There are no other restrictions to access of this collection. Potential researchers should contact: Dena McDuffie, Archivist, Research Corporation, 4703 East Camp Lowell Drive, Suite 201, Tucson, Arizona 85712, by calling (520) 571-1111, or email mcduffie@rescorp.org in order to discuss a research plan and to arrange access to materials.
COPYRIGHT
Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be sent in writing, addressed to: Dena McDuffie, Archivist, Research Corporation, 4703 East Camp Lowell Drive, Suite 201, Tucson, Arizona 85712; by FAX 571-1119; or by email mcduffie@rescorp.org
PROCESSING
The collection was processed and the finding aid written by Dena McDuffie in 2006-2008.
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of science.
ARRANGEMENT
The collection is arranged topically in ten distinct record series. All current material is fully processed. A description of each series follows:
Record series I: History of the Foundation. Includes early correspondence relating to the founding of Research Corporation, by-laws and certificate of incorporation, employment policies, real estate, activities of the organization, patents and related businesses. Includes documents pertaining to Research Corporation, copied from the Smithsonian Archives (arranged topically). Folders 1-270
Record series II: Correspondence. Correspondence between Walter A. Schmidt (president of Western Precipitation), Cottrell and Poillon comprises the largest single correspondence in the collection with 16 folders containing letters dating from 1928 to 1944. One note from Poillon, dated October 7, 1931, remarks “I have received today about four pounds of letters from you.”]. Other notable correspondents in this series are Alexander Graham Bell, Vannevar Bush, Albert Einstein and E.O. Lawrence, among many others (arranged alphabetically by author, and then chronologically). Folders 271-363
Record series III: Biographical. Contains background information about employees, scientists, grantees and others interested and/or involved in the Foundation’s mission (arranged alphabetically). Folders 364-432
Record series IV: Grants. Includes information about early grant activities; scrapbooks of grant announcements; official “Reports on Research” dating from 1931 to 1941; and individual grant programs (arranged chronologically). Folders 433-625
Record series V: Manuscripts. Contains “Internal Annual Reports” dating from 1926 to 1990; miscellaneous reports and speeches (arranged chronologically). Folders 626-683
Record series VI: Press. Includes press releases issued by Research Corporation from 1945 to present (arranged chronologically). Folders 684-691
Record series VII: Publications. Articles published about the Foundation dating from 1896 to present; miscellaneous news clippings from the 1940s to present; publications written and published by Research Corporation dating from 1917 to 1991; annual reports 1924 to present; and books published by Research Corporation from 1952 to present (arranged chronologically). Folders 692-924
Record series VIII: Activity Files. Projects including Research Corporation’s work with the Tennessee Valley Authority; Nobel Prize winners whose work was supported in part by the Foundation; Research Corporation Awards (1925-1969); speeches; and operations. (arranged alphabetically) Folders 925-1048
Record series IX: Photographs. Includes photographs of employees, members of the Board of Directors, scientists, significant locations, colleges and universities (arranged topically). Folders 1049-1054
Record series X: Special Archives. Papers pertaining to the work and philanthropy of Rachel Brown and Elizabeth Hazen (Folders 1055-1094); Frederick Gardner Cottrell (Folders 1095-1134); Grote Reber (Folders 1135-1144); Charles Hard Townes (Folders 1145-1157); and Robert R. Williams and Robert Waterman (Folders 1158-1315)
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
Record series I: History of the Foundation
Box 1 , F. 1-19
F. 1 Attorneys [John B. Pine was the attorney for Research Corporation in the foundation’s early days. This file contains papers from Pine’s files], Correspondence, 1912-1918
F. 2 Attorneys [John B. Pine was the attorney for Research Corporation in the foundation’s early days. This file contains papers from Pine’s files], Miscellaneous
F. 3 Board of Directors and Officers, Correspondence
F. 4-18 Board of Directors and Officers, Meetings, 1912-1938 (not inclusive)
Box 2, F. 20-31
F. 20-28 Board of Directors and Officers, Meetings, 1939-2006 (not inclusive) [For privacy, minutes less than 25 years old are restricted]
F. 29 Board of Directors and Officers, Members
F. 30 Board of Directors and Officers, Reports to the Board
F. 31 Board of Directors and Officers, Executive Committee, Meetings, 1919-1931 (not inclusive)
Box 3, F. 32-46
F. 32-45 Board of Directors and Officers, Executive Committee, Meetings, 1936-1986 (not inclusive)
F. 46 Board of Directors and Officers, “Report of the Committee on Goals and Objectives to the Board of Directors of Research Corporation,” 1979
Box 4, F. 47-59
F. 47A By-laws and Certificate of Incorporation
F. 47B By-laws and Certificate of Incorporation, Correspondence
F. 48 By-laws and Certificate of Incorporation, Correspondence relating to changes to Certificate of Incorporation, 1931-1932
F. 49 By-laws and Certificate of Incorporation, File relating to changes to Certificate of Incorporation, ca. 1932
F. 50 Employment Policy, Correspondence, 1923-1931 [Includes document “Research Corporation to award prizes to employees,” which proposes rewarding employees who “contribute outstanding improvements in the art of electrical precipitation or improved methods or equipment whereby the business of Research Corporation is benefited.”]
F. 51 Employment Policy, Correspondence, 1941-1973
F. 52 Employment Policy, Social Security, 1936-1937
F. 53 Employment Policy, “Position evaluation and salary administration study, Research Corporation, May 1953
F. 54 Employment Policy, “Some special rights and responsibilities of professional and supervisory personnel,” 1981
F. 55 Employment Policy, “Guide to Research Corporation policies and practices,” 1984
F. 56 Establishing Research Corporation, Correspondence, 1912-1917
F. 57 Establishing Research Corporation, Forms and Agreements
F. 58 Establishing Research Corporation, 1912-1930, Miscellaneous [Includes minutes of organizational meetings of the foundation and subscription agreements for original stockholders.]
F. 59 Establishing Research Corporation, Report by Arthur Hamerschlag on survey of the first ten years of the foundation, 1922
Box 5, F. 60-66
F. 60-66 Financial Documents, Auditors and Accountants’ Reports, 1915-1953 (not inclusive)
Box 6, F. 67-81
F. 67 Financial Documents, Auditors and Accountants’ Reports, 1954
F. 68-76 Financial Documents, Correspondence and Miscellaneous, 1928-1944 (not inclusive)
F. 77-81 International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA) (Cottrell was greatly interested in the establishment of an international language), Correspondence 1929-1940 (not inclusive)
Box 7, F. 82-97
F. 82 International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA), Miscellaneous
F. 83 Investments
F. 84 Legal Documents
F. 85-86 Listings of the foundation’s files by year, 1931-1945 (not inclusive)
F. 87 Massachusetts Institute of Technology [From 1937 To 1963, Research Corporation had an exclusive agreement with MIT to manage the university’s patents. Included are a copy of agreement and correspondence.], Miscellaneous, 1937-1948
F. 88 “Minute Adopted by the Research Corporation in Recognition of the Service Rendered by Frederick G. Cottrell, B.S., Ph.D., to the Advancement of Science,” 1915
F. 89 Office space [The foundation’s first offices (1912-1918) within the John B. Pine law office at 63 Wall Street. The address in 1920 was 25 W. 43 rd St., Room No. 1008, NY, NY; phone number was Broad 2874. In 1930-1931, the foundation moved to the Chrysler Building at 405 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Research Corporation moved from New York to Arizona in 1982. Its offices in Tucson have been: 6480 E. Broadway Blvd. (1982-1991); 101 North Wilmot Street (1991-2004); and 4703 East Camp Lowell Drive (2004-present). Locations for regional offices included: 1290 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, California; 1320 Second Street and 225 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California; 137 Newbury Street, Boston; Washington, D.C.; and 59 East Van Buren Street, Chicago; 6075 Roswell Road N.E., Atlanta, Georgia], 1937-1982
F. 90 Patents, Electrostatic Precipitation, Correspondence, 1912-1917
F. 91 Patents, Electrostatic Precipitation, Correspondence, 1919
F. 92-96 Patents, Electrostatic Precipitation, Correspondence, 1945-1949
F. 97 Patents, Electrostatic Precipitation, Licenses and Agreements
Box 8, F. 98-108
F. 98 Real Estate [Papers related to sale of property owned by Research Corporation at 21-33 West 96 th Street in New York], 1934-1942
F. 99 Real Estate [Papers relating to property in Bound Brook, New Jersey], Correspondence, 1932-1955
F. 100 Real Estate [Papers relating to property in Bound Brook, New Jersey], Legal Documents
F. 101 Real Estate [Papers relating to rental of the Swann Satsuma Orange Grove in Lyman, Mississippi], 1933
F. 102-107 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation. This business began in 1906 when Frederick Cottrell successfully precipitated sulfuric acid fumes in a small electrostatic precipitator test unit through the use of a high voltage transformer and the newly-invented synchronous mechanical rectifier. In 1907, Dr. Cottrell and his associates formed the International Precipitation Company for the marketing of his newly invented electrostatic precipitation process. Western Precipitation was established as a licensee for commercializing the electrostatic precipitator in the state of California. Offices were at 1016 West Ninth Street in Los Angeles. It was Dr. Cottrell's intent to establish similar operating companies throughout the Unites States and Canada and then around the world.
The commercial feasibility of the electrostatic precipitator was first demonstrated at the Hercules Works, a sulfuric acid plant owned by E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company in Pinole, California, on the San Francisco Bay, where arsenic vapors were impacting the operation of their catalytic converters. The Western Precipitation electrostatic precipitator proved to be the effective solution and with its success, a second installation at the Selby Smelter followed that same year. This installation was designed for the collection of sulphuric fumes escaping from the gold smelting drums and remained in operation for several decades.
In 1911, Western Precipitation, under the direction of its president Walter A. Schmidt (who remained at that post for over 48 years), designed and constructed the first large electrostatic precipitator, which was installed at the Riverside Cement Company in Crestmore, California for the recapture of cement kiln dust. This unit not only proved the process successful on very large gas flows, but also remained in service for 54 years. As a result of those first successes, Western Precipitation was granted additional territory for the six western states in 1911.
In 1912, Dr. Cottrell with the other international patent holders, Sir Oliver Lodge of England and Dr. Erwin Moeller of Germany, formed the Research Company as a non-profit patent administrative company in the interest of developing the electrostatic precipitation process worldwide. This organization acted as a clearinghouse for process improvements and established operating territories for the participating companies, which included Western Precipitation of Los Angeles, Research Corporation of New York, Lodge-Cottrell of England, Lurgi Apparatebau-Gesellschaft of Germany and Japanese Cottrell Corp. of Japan. This international cooperative provided for the accelerated development of the process until World War II when it was disbanded. Western Precipitation, Research Corporation and Lodge-Cottrell, Ltd. continued their relationship until the United States government declared that the patent control and the territory distribution violated the Anti-Trust Laws. Consequently, Western Precipitation and Research Corporation entered into a Consent Decree in 1946, under which all territory restrictions were abrogated. Western Precipitation was then free to operate throughout the world.
The company was acquired by and became a division of the Joy Manufacturing Company in 1959. Today, Western Precipitation is known as Diamond Power International, Inc. http://www.diamondpower.com/. ], Air Conditioning, Correspondence, 1936-1943 (not inclusive)
F. 108 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Air Conditioning, Miscellaneous
Box 9, F. 109-121
F. 109-112 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Anti-trust Litigation, Correspondence, ca. 1939
F. 113-114 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Anti-trust Litigation, Legal Documents
F. 115 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Anti-trust Litigation, Miscellaneous
F. 116-121 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, General, Correspondence, 1916- 1931 (not inclusive)
Box 10, F. 122-137
F. 122-131 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, General, Correspondence, 1931- 1937 (not inclusive)
Box 11, F. 132-142
F. 132-142 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, General, Correspondence, 1938- 1946 (not inclusive)
Box 12, F. 143-155
F. 143-147 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Fly Ash [Fly ash is the finely divided mineral residue resulting from the combustion of powdered coal in electric generating plants], Correspondence, 1937-1941
F. 148 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Fly Ash, Miscellaneous
F. 149-152 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Fly Ash, Grants, Chicago District Electric Generating Corporation, Correspondence, 1935-1942
F. 153 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Fly Ash, Grants, Chicago District Electric Generating Corporation, Legal Documents
F. 154 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Fly Ash, Grants, Chicago District Electric Generating Corporation, Miscellaneous
F. 155-156 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Fly Ash, Grants, Chicago District Electric Generating Corporation, Reports, 1937-1940
Box 13, F. 157-172
F. 157-158 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Fly Ash, Grants, Chicago District Electric Generating Corporation, Reports, 1931-1944
F. 159-166 Related Business: Research Corporation/ Western Precipitation, Goodell Process [Goodell invented a “black liquor recovery process adaptable to sods and sulfate pulp and paper mills.” These papers chronicle the process of Goodell and Research Corporation coming to a patent agreement.], Correspondence, 1920 -1933
F. 167 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Goodell Process, Legal Documents
F. 168 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Goodell Process, Patents
F. 169 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, International Precipitation
F. 170-172 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Joint Development Program, Correspondence [Foreign patents granted to Western Precipitation on “cooperative development” inventions], 1939-1942
Box 14, F. 173-179
F. 173-174 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Legal Documents, 1911-1982
F. 175 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation, Miscellaneous
F. 176-177 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation,Patent Agreements
F. 178-179 Related Business: Research Corporation/Western Precipitation,Reports
Box 15, F. 180-193
F. 180-186 Related Business: Research Corporation/Lodge-Cottrell Ltd. [Much of the early work in electrostatic precipitation was done in England by Sir Oliver Lodge (a physicist). Lodge and Cottrell exchanged technical information on precipitation prior to World War I and development work continued after the war. Lodge-Cottrell was organized in Britain under the direction of Sir Oliver’s son, Lionel. Shares of the business were presented to Cottrell in recognition of his contributions to the process.], Correspondence, 1930-1948 (not inclusive)
F. 187-188 Related Business: Research Corporation/Lodge-Cottrell Ltd., Correspondence with Lurgi Apparatebau-Gesellschaft, 1931-1932
F. 189 Related Business: Research Corporation/Lodge-Cottrell Ltd., Miscellaneous
F. 190-193 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Associates Inc. [Funded by “grants” from Research Corporation, Research Associates was organized January 1, 1935 with offices in Washington D.C. It was an outgrowth of a laboratory set up for Cottrell by Research Corporation around 1929 in quarters furnished by the Smithsonian Institution. Research Associates was an effort by Cottrell to create another Research Corporation which would, in time, become self supporting through returns for its services and products. Among its projects were the Brackett Headlights, Detergents, Heat Wave Roasting of Fullers Earth, the Greger Fuel Cell and Royster Stoves and Deodorizers. The organization eventually floundered. In a letter dated September 18, 1951, J.W. Barker discussed“the main problem at Research Associates, Inc.–the complete inability of this brilliant heterogeneous group of prima donnas to stick sufficiently long on any line of investigation to determine either that it would or would not work. It seemed as if the moment any particular experiment was started everyone, including Cottrell particularly, lost all interest in that experiment. Sparks began flying about some other experiment and dropping the older one without any specific determinations, off they would go after the new spark.”], Correspondence, 1934-1936
Box 16, F. 194-203
F. 194-197 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Associates Inc., Correspondence, 1937-1938
F. 198 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Associates Inc., Legal Documents
F. 199 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Associates Inc., Miscellaneous
F. 200-201 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Associates Inc., Royster Stove/Deodorizer[This device was designed by Cottrell to effectively and economically destroy organic odors carried by streams of gases], Correspondence, 1931-1940
F. 202 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Associates Inc., Royster Stove/Deodorizer, Miscellaneous
F. 203 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Associates Inc., Cottrell-Royster Deodorizer, Publications
Box 17, F. 204-215
F. 204 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Construction Co. Inc. [Radar was patented by British scientist Sir Robert Watson-Watt for meteorological applications in 1935. Since practical applications for airborne microwave radar had not been developed before World War II, the government of England requested assistance from the U.S. National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) to develop this capability. In October 1940, MIT was chosen as the site of an independent laboratory that would be staffed by civilian and academic scientists from every discipline. Fourteen months before the U.S. entered World War II, MIT's newly formed Radiation Laboratory began its investigation of microwave electronics. During World War II, large-scale research at MIT's Radiation Laboratory was devoted to the rapid development of microwave radar. Projects included physical electronics, microwave physics, electromagnetic properties of matter, and microwave communication principles. The "RadLab" designed almost half of the radar deployed in World War II, created over 100 different radar systems, and constructed $1.5 billion worth of radar. At the height of its activities, the RadLab employed nearly 4,000 people working on several continents. Research Construction Co. Inc., in cooperation with the Radiation Laboratory at MIT, produced for the government, on a “no profit and no loss” basis, $12 million worth of experimental radar apparatus. Research Construction Company was located at 230 Albany St., Cambridge, Massachusetts], Contract
F. 205-213 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Construction Co. Inc., Correspondence, 1937-1960 (not inclusive)
F. 214 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Construction Co. Inc., Legal Documents
F. 215 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Construction Co. Inc., Miscellaneous
Box 18, F. 216-226
F. 216-217 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Construction Co. Inc., Reports
F. 218-219 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Corporation High Altitude Station, Echo Lake, Colorado [In 1949, Research Corporation purchased a ranch near Echo Lake and established a facility to house scientists engaged in cosmic ray research in the area.], Correspondence, 1949-1953
F. 220 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Corporation High Altitude Station, Echo Lake, Colorado, Legal Documents
F. 221 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Corporation High Altitude Station, Echo Lake, Colorado, Miscellaneous
F. 222 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell [For its first 15 years,Research Corporation was operated almost solely as a business, producing and selling the electrostatic precipitators invented by Cottrell. The royalties from that business began the endowment that funds the foundation today. In 1954, Research Corporation gave rise to Research-Cottrell. Offices were located in Bound Brook, New Jersey. The same year, Research-Cottrell Inc. became a taxable subsidiary and an independent producer of equipment for control of air, water and thermal pollution. The company was acquired by the Hamon Group in 1997 and is now known as Hamon Research Cottrell (http://www.hamonusa.com/)], Divestiture
F. 223 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell, Facilities
F. 224 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell, Formation
F. 225 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell, Meetings
F. 226 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell, Miscellaneous
Box 19, F. 227-235
F. 227 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell, Publications
F. 228 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell, Stocks, General
F. 229 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell, Stocks, “Securities and Exchange Commission/Washington, D.C. 20549/Exhibits to Form S-1/Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933/Research-Cottrell, Inc.
F. 230 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research-Cottrell, Willow Island, West Virginia [In 1978, 51 workmen building a cooling tower for Research-Cottrell in Willow Island, West Virginia fell to their deaths when the scaffolding inside the tower gave way.], Miscellaneous
F. 231 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Software (see also News Releases, 1984) [a program established in 1983 to copyright and publicize software programs of potential interest to the academic community], Miscellaneous
F. 232 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Corporation Limited/Research Corporation Trust [In the mid-1980s, hoping to take advantage of the privatization of industry taking place at that time in the U.K., Research Corporation and Investors in Industry (a major independent U.K. financial institution) formed Research Corporation Trust, a joint venture to designed encourage and sponsor the commercial development of research projects by British universities. A subsidiary, Research Corporation Limited, was established in the United Kingdom to evaluate, patent and license inventions. The project was abandoned after several years], Miscellaneous
F. 233 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Corporation Technologies [In 1987, Research Corporation spun off its technology development and commercialization activities in the form of Research Corporation Technologies (RCT). The new company absorbed the foundation’s scientists, engineers, lawyers and marketing experts, assumed its patent holdings and took over its agreements with over 300 universities to evaluate, patent and commercialize their inventions.], Patents (See also separate Research Corporation Patents archives), Miscellaneous
F. 234 Related Business: Research Corporation/Research Corporation Technologies, Publications
F. 235 Research Corporation background [Contains overviews of the foundation, created in-house)
Box 20, F. 236-247
F. 236 Smithsonian Institution, Correspondence [Includes correspondence between Cottrell, Walcott (secretary of the Smithsonian from 1907 to 1927) , Alexander Graham Bell, Charles F. Choate Jr., etc. ], 1911-1915
F. 237-241 Smithsonian Institution, Correspondence with C.G. Abbot, [Charles GreeleyAbbot was an astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian from 1928 to 1944 ], 1928-1941 (not inclusive)
F. 242-244 Smithsonian Institution, Correspondence with Chester G. Gilbert [Gilbert was curator of the Division of Mineral Technology at the Smithsonian. Contains a great deal of discussion, in 1934, about the establishment of Research Associates, Cottrell and Royster. Contains interesting comments about the aging Cottrell.], 1931, 1934
F. 245 Smithsonian Institution [Includes minutes of Smithsonian Board of Regents meetings; diary entries by Charles Doolittle Walcott pertaining to meetings with Cottrell and the establishment of Research Corporation; December 30, 1911 article from the Washington Herald, announcing “Smelter Patent Given to Science”], Miscellaneous
F. 246-247 Smithsonian Institution copies, [Note: In 2006, Archivist Dena McDuffie visited the Smithsonian Institution Archives to research the materials on deposit there pertaining to Research Corporation. Due to time and reproduction constraints, copies were made of a very small portion of those papers. Complete records at the Smithsonian related to Research Corporation are contained in Record Units 45, 50 and 51.], Correspondence, 1911-1912
Box 21, F. 248-266
F. 248-253 Smithsonian Institution copies, [Note: In 2006, Archivist Dena McDuffie visited the Smithsonian Institution Archives to research the materials on deposit there pertaining to Research Corporation. Due to time and reproduction constraints, copies were made of a very small portion of those papers. Complete records at the Smithsonian related to Research Corporation are contained in Record Units 45, 50 and 51.], Correspondence, 1913-1959
F. 254 Smithsonian Institution copies, Grants and Fellowships
F. 255 Smithsonian Institution copies, Robert Goddard and invention of rocketry
F. 256 Smithsonian Institution copies, International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA)
F. 257 Smithsonian Institution copies, Legal Documents
F. 258 Smithsonian Institution copies, Edward Marchand and invention of Meatox,
F. 259 Smithsonian Institution copies, Miscellaneous
F. 260 Smithsonian Institution copies, Reports
F. 261 Smithsonian Institution copies, Research Corporation Awards
F. 262-266 Tax exempt status, Correspondence, 1916-1957 (not inclusive)
BOX 22, F. 267-291
F. 267-268 Tax-exempt status, Correspondence, 1916-1957 (not inclusive)
F. 269 Tax -exempt status, Miscellaneous
F. 270 Women in science
Record series II: Correspondence
F. 271-277 Early Research Corporation correspondence, 1912-1918
F. 278 A-C, Miscellaneous [Includes Roger Adams of University of Illinois, 1947; John C. Bailar Jr. of University of Illinois; Paul D. Bartlett of Harvard University; Herbert C. Brown of Purdue University; M. Calvin of University of California, Berkeley; H.E. Carter of University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton of Washington University; E.U. Condon, U.S. Department of Commerce; A.C. Cope of MIT]
F. 279-282 Barker, Joseph W., 1946-1957
F. 283 D, Miscellaneous [Includes P. Debye of Cornell University; L.A. DuBridge of California Institute of Technology; Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell Medical School]
F. 284 Davis, Harvey N. [ Davis was president of the Stevens Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1931, Research Corporation had an arrangement with Stevens to take on some Research Corporation employees who were being laid off from Research Corporation. Includes a nice letter from Poillon discussing how he’d rather lay people off in May when the weather is nice than in February when it’s cold.], 1929-1931
F. 285 E, Miscellaneous [Includes Milton S. Eisenhower of Kansas State College]
F. 286 Einstein, Albert [Correspondence between Einstein and Research Corporation relating to Sergei Hessen who had been a professor at the University of St. Petersburg in Russia, but had recently moved to Prague. Einstein asks for financial assistance for Hessen, as well as other “emigrated Russian men of learning who are prevented even from recording the results of their scientific work because of their pressing need of the means merely to keep alive.”], 1929
F. 287 F, Miscellaneous [Includes Louis F. Fieser of Harvard University; James Franck of University of Chicago]
F. 288 G, Miscellaneous [Includes Paul Gyorgy of University of Pennsylvania; Henry Gilman of Iowa State College; L.M. Gould of Carleton College]
F. 289 H, Miscellaneous [Includes Joel H. Hildebrand of University of California, Berkeley; Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York; J.R. Heller, Director of National Cancer Institute, etc.], 1957-1968
F. 290-291 Hadley, Hamilton, 1938-1953
BOX 23, F. 292-308
F. 292 Hinkley, J.W., 1957-1967
F. 293 I, Miscellaneous
F. 294 International Cooperation Administration ( ICA), 1956-1957
F. 295 J, Miscellaneous [Largely correspondence between R.R. Williams and D.K. Jardine], 1954-1969
F. 296-297 Jolliffe, Norman [Includes wonderful travelogues, in the form of letters to their son, of a trip Dr. & Mrs. Jolliffe made to Japan, China, India and Formosa in 1954, under the auspices of the Williams-Waterman Fund. On the Formosa leg of that trip, Jolliffe taught a class on nutrition and conducted a clinical study of subjects in and around Taipei. After Jolliffe’s death in 1961, his wife established the Norman Jolliffe Fellowship, through the Williams-Waterman Fund.], 1953-1967
F. 298 K, Miscellaneous [Includes C.F. Kettering of General Motors Corporation; M.S. Kharasch of University of Chicago; G.B. Kistiakowsky of Harvard], 1955-1967
F. 299 Kelleher, Alfred, 1958-1962
F. 300-301 King, W. Kendall [King joined Research Corporation in 1968 as assistant vice president for grants. He became vice president in 1977 with full responsibility for planning and managing the corporation's grants program. He also administered the corporation's research and training project in public health and nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean.], Correspondence largely about Williams-Waterman grants in Haiti, 1965-1966
F. 302 King, W. Kendall, haiku written by King
F. 303 L, Miscellaneous, 1955-1966
F. 304-308 Lawrence, Ernest O. [ American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project. Folders include descriptions of Lawrence’s work, photographs and an invitation to Lawrence’s wedding ], 1931-1933 (see also Box 21, F. 255)
BOX 24, F. 309-326
F. 309-318 Lawrence, Ernest O., 1934-1946
F. 319 M, Miscellaneous [Includes Arthur E. Martell of University of California; C.S. Marvel of University of Illinois; P.J. McCormick of Catholic University of America; R.A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology], 1931-1966
F. 320-326 Morris, Dave Hennen, [ Dave Hennen Morris ( 1872- 1944) graduated from Harvard in 1896. He became an attorney and later a diplomat and, with his wife, Alice Vanderbilt Morris, he cofounded the International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA), which in 1951 would present Interlingua to the general public. He was treasurer of IALA from its establishment in 1924 to his death in 1944. His son, Lawrence, then assumed the position. From 1933 to 1937, he was U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and Envoy to Luxemburg. During this joint appointment, he resided in Belgium, where he and his wife continued to make international contacts for IALA. He also was Vice President of Research Corporation .], 1930-1944 (not inclusive)
BOX 25, F. 327-341
F. 327 N, Miscellaneous [Includes W. Albert Noyes Jr. of University of Rochester]
F. 328 O, Miscellaneous
F. 329 P, Miscellaneous [Includes G.E. Pake of Stanford University; Linus Pauling of California Institute of Technology]
F. 330 Parke, Davis and Company, 1933-1946
F. 331 Poillon, Howard A. [Correspondence relating to P.E. Askenasy, C.P. Derleth and fly ash], 1937
F. 332 Q, Miscellaneous [Includes Quaker Oats, Elena S. Quiogue], 1951-1957
F. 333 R, Miscellaneous [Includes I.I. Rabi of Columbia University; H.M Randall of University of Michigan; Bruno Rossi of MIT; Harold Rice of Stanford], 1956-1968
F. 334-336 Ramsey, Hal H. [Ramsey joined the Research Corporation Grants Program in 1958, serving as Western Regional Director for over 27 years.] [Correspondence concerningResearch Corporation’s consideration of expansion of grants program into South America], 1957-1970
F. 337 S, Miscellaneous, 1956-1969 [Includes H.I. Schlesinger of University of Chicago; Indumati Sreenivasan of Elphinstone College in Bombay, India; Nevin Scrimshaw of MIT], 1956-1969
F. 338-341 Schauer, Charles H. “Hap” [Schauer was Director of the Grants Program and later Vice President of Research Corporation], 1945-1978
BOX 26, F. 342-353
F. 342-345 Scherer, Paul A., 1960-1964 [Scherer was executive director of the Carnegie Institution, then
worked for Research Corporation, then became a director of the National Science Foundation ]
F. 346-353 Schmidt, Walter A., [Schmidt was the head of Western Precipitation Co. and a prolific letter-writer! He often wrote two to four letters per day to Howard Poillon of Research Corporation.], 1928-1934
BOX 27a, F. 354-362
F. 354-361 Schmidt, Walter A., 1935-1944
F. 362 Sebrell, Henry, 1956-1961 [A leading international authority on nutrition, Sebrell first recognized and described the dietary deficiency disease, ariboflavinosis, and made significant contributions to knowledge of dietary needs and deficiencies. He was head of the NIH from 1950 to 1955.]
F. 362a-362b Smith, Sam Corry [Smith was a biochemist and was director of grants for Research Corporation during the 1960s. In 1975, he became executive director of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, a position he held until 1988.], 1955-1967
Box 27b , F. 362c-363
F. 362c-362h Smith, Sam Corry, 1968-1978
F. 363a Thwaite, Walter E. Jr.
F. 363b Miscellaneous, V
F. 363c Miscellaneous, W [Includes Roger J. Williams of University of Texas; Simon H. Wender of University of Oklahoma; W.A. Woods of Research Corporation; James M. Watt, director of the National Heart Institute; S.P. Yang of Purdue University; Charlotte M. Young of Cornell; John B. Youmans of Vanderbilt]
[Note: See Special Archives, Williams-Waterman for information about Robert E. Waterman and Robert R. Williams]
F. 363d Wilson, Carroll L. [Carroll Louis Wilson was professor of management at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a representative (i.e., searching for inventions that Research Corporation might be interested in exploiting) of Research Corporation at MIT. After Karl Taylor Compton became president of MIT in 1930, Compton began a reorganization of the university, appointing Wilson the first assistant to the president. Wilson remembered his duties as: “...serving as General Administrative Assistant to the President and working with Dr. Compton on a number of outside activities including the Science Advisory Board, 1933-1935...the Engineers Council for Professional Development...Patent Policy Committee of the National Research Council, etc.” Wilson also gathered information for Compton and Vannevar Bush in preparation for speeches, memoranda and policy decisions.], 1944
Record series III: Biographical [Biographical information and/or photos]
F. 364 A, Miscellaneous [Includes Charles Greeley Abbott; Arthur S. Adams; Herbert S. Adler; Frederick R. Adler; John Vincent Atanasoff]
F. 365 Anderson, Evald [Evald Anderson's pioneering work in 1919 and Walther Deutsch's in 1922, gave origin to the classic equation of collection efficiency for electrostatic precipitators, known as the Deutsch-Anderson equation]
F. 366 Andreen, Brian [Andreen was a program officer and later vice president of Research Corporation]
F. 367 B, Miscellaneous. [Includes W. Stevenson (Steve) Bacon; Leo H. Baekeland; R. Palmer Baker; Richard S. Baldwin; Neil Bartlett; Abraham Bavley; David G. Black Jr.; Vannevar Bush; Sherri Benedict; David G. Black Jr. [See also special archives for Rachel Brown/Elizabeth Lee Hazen]
F. 368 Barker, Joseph W. [Barker was dean of engineering at Columbia University before becoming president of Research Corporation from 1946 to 1957]
F. 369 Bartlett, Neil [ Bartlett ’s seminal discovery was that noble gases were indeed reactive enough to form bonds. ]
F. 370 Bush, Vannevar [Bush was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. A leading figure assistants on the table-top of an academic lab but by large, multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers in the development of the military-industrial complex and the military funding of science in the United States, Bush was a prominent policymaker and public intellectual during World War II and the ensuing Cold War ]
F. 371 C, Miscellaneous [Includes Paul C. Collins; Richard G. Cunningham; Donald M. Coyne. [See also special archives for Frederick Gardner Cottrell]
F. 372 Caldwell, Carlyle G. [ Caldwell was president of the National Starch and Chemical Corp. and a member of the Research Corporation Board of Directors]
F. 373 Campins, Humberto [Campins is Provost Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Head of the Astronomy Group at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. He is also adjunct faculty at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona, Tucson. He was a program officer at Research Corporation from 1998 to 2002.]
F. 374 Coles, James Stacy “Spike” [Coles was president of Bowdoin College, then president of Research Corporation from 1967 to 1982]
F. 375 D, Miscellaneous ; Albert S. Davis Jr.; Robert H. Dicke; Carl Djerassi; Burt N. Dorsett; Helen Day; Harvey Nathaniel Davis]
F. 376 Dalldorf, Gilbert [ Dalldorf discovered the Coxsackie viruses circa 1948 while working at the New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York. He was a friend and mentor to Rachel Brown and Elizabeth Hazen who worked under Dalldorf when they discovered nystatin, the first antifungal medication . See also Brown-Hazen special archives and Publications ]
F. 377 Dorsett, Burt N.
F. 378 Douglass, A.E. [Douglass was an American astronomer who discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle. See also Research Corporation Awards, 1930 ]
F. 379 Doyle, Michael P. [Doyle was vice president of Research Corporation and, very briefly in 1999, president. He is currently chair of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at University of Maryland at College Park.]
F. 380 E, Miscellaneous [Includes Hans A. Eckhardt; Joseph Clifton Elgin]
F. 381 F, Miscellaneous [Includes James S. Fulleylove; Walter R. French Jr.]
F. 382 Fox, Charles L. Jr. [Fox was a pioneer in the use of silver sulfadiazine for the treatment of burns.]
F. 383 G, Miscellaneous [Includes John D. Garrison; I. Robert Goldsmith; Mary Lynn Grayeski; Roger Griffioen; Mitchell M. Griffith; Robert M. Gavin Jr.; Roger E. Gay; Frederick A. Goetze]
F. 384 Gentile, James [Gentile was dean of natural sciences at Hope College before becoming president of Research Corporation in 2004. Includes 2005 interview on Arizona Illustrated television show]
BOX 29, F. 385-405
F. 385 Goddard, Robert H. [Goddard, the inventor of rocketry, received a grant from Research Corporation (through the Smithsonian Institution) in 1923.]
F. 386 H, Miscellaneous [IncludesBayard R. Hand; William G. Hendrickson; H. Gordon Howe; A.J. Haagen-Smit; William R. Hewlett; Hamilton Hadley; Arthur A. Hamerschlag; Bayard R. Hand; Carl W. Hedberg; William G. Hendrickson; Harold L. Hoffman; Joseph A. Holmes. See also special archives for Rachel Brown/Elizabeth Lee Hazen]
F. 387 Hall, H. Tracy [Hall was an American physical chemist who first synthesized a diamond using a press of his own design . ]
F. 388 Hinkley, J. William III [Hinkley was president of Research Corporation from 1957 until his death in 1967.]
F. 389 Hooker, Elon Huntington [Hooker founded the Hooker Electrochemical Company and was president of Research Corporation from 1915 to 1922.]
F. 390 I-K, Miscellaneous [Includes Brent L. Iverson; James A. Jacobson; John W. Johnstone Jr.; Alfred Kelleher; Bernard M. Kosloski; Endel Karmas; James R. Killian Jr; Edwin Krebs.]
F. 391 Jolliffe, Norman [Norman Jolliffe was the Director of the City of New York Department of Health’s Bureau of Nutrition and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Williams-Waterman Fund. Upon his death, his wife contributed approximately $100,000 to establish the Norman Jolliffe Fellowship for advanced training in clinical nutrition and metabolic diseases in man. The fellowship was a part of the Williams-Waterman Fund and was administered by the fund.]
F. 392 Jones, Donald F. and Mangelsdorf, Paul C. [Jones and Mangelsdorf invented the production of hybrid corn seed without detasseling]
F. 393 Kendall, Edward C. [Kendall was a chemist who, together with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research at the Mayo Clinic on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones. He discovered the hormone Cortisone. ]
F. 394 King, Kendall W. [King was an important component of the Williams-Waterman work in Haiti. He was vice president of the grants program at Research Corporation.]
F. 395 L, Miscellaneous [Includes Fred Lauro; Robert L. Lichter; Sigmund Lasker]
F. 396 Law, S. Edward [Law was an agricultural engineer who invented the electrostatic application of agricultural pesticide sprays and other biological/chemical agents.]
F. 397 Lawrence, E.O. [ Lawrence was the inventor of the cyclotron, an accelerator of subatomic particles, and a 1939 Nobel Laureate in physics for that achievement. The Radiation Laboratory he developed at Berkeley during the 1930s ushered in the era of “big science,” in which experiments were no longer done by an individual researcher and a few in entire buildings full of sophisticated equipment and huge scientific machines. During World War II, Lawrence and his accelerators contributed to the Manhattan Project, and he later played a leading role in establishing the U.S. system of national laboratories.], Manhattan Project
F. 398 Lawrence, E.O., Miscellaneous
F. 399 Lawrence, E.O., Photographs
F. 400 M, Miscellaneous [Includes Colin B. Mackay; Margaret L.A. MacVicar; Margaret M. McCarthy;
Carl S. Marvel; Phillip C. Miller; Robert W. Morse; Gary M. Munsinger; Timothy McNeese ]
F. 401 Marcy, Willard [Marcy was vice president of the invention administration program at Research Corporation.]
F. 402 Morris, Dave Hennen [Morris was an attorney and cofounder with his wife, Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, of the International Auxiliary Language Association. He was U.S. ambassador to Belgium from 1933 to 1937 and a vice president of Research Corporation.]
F. 403 N and O, Miscellaneous [Includes Pauline Newman; Thomas M. Noone; Mark E. Ogram; Harold S. Osborne]
F. 404 P and Q, Miscellaneous [Includes Robert W. Piwonka;R. Scott Pyron; Jack W. Powers]
F. 405 Poillon, Howard A. [Poillon was president of Research Corporation from 1927 to 1946.]
Box 30, F. 406-419
F. 406 R, Miscellaneous [Includes I.I. Rabi; S. Dillon Ripley; Robert H. Ritchings; Benjamin A. Rubin. Note: See also special archives, Grote Reber]
F. 407 Ramsey, Hal H.
F. 408 Research Corporation staff members, Miscellaneous
F. 409 Rosenberg, Barnett, Biographical
F. 410 Rosenberg, Barnett, Correspondence
F. 411 Rosenberg, Barnett, Patents
F. 412-413 Rosenberg, Barnett, Publications, 1969-1992
F. 414 S, Miscellaneous, S-Z [Includes Robert J. Sanders Jr; Donald T. Sawyer; Walter A. Schmidt, John E. Schork; Morton Schwarcz; W. Henry Sebrell; L. Donald Shields; George L. Shinn; Orin R. Smith; Lloyd P. Smith; Whitney Stone; Michael J. Suber]
F. 415 Schaefer, John P. –Biographical
F. 416 Schaefer, John P. –Photographs
F. 417 Schaefer, John P. –Publications about Schaefer
F. 418 Schaefer, John P. –Publications about Schaefer, CDs
F. 419 Schaefer, John P. –Publications by Schaefer
Box 31, F. 420-432
F. 420 Schaefer, John P. –Speeches, 1982-2001
F. 421 Schauer, Charles H. [Schauer was Director of Grants and Executive Vice President of Research Corporation in the 1950s.]
F. 422 Sebrell, W. Henry [Sebrell was director of the National Institutes of Health and Assistant Surgeon General. He was a medical doctor with interests in pellagra. In 1956, he became head of the Williams-Waterman Fund for Research Corporation.], 1956-1968
F. 423 Seitz, Frederick [Seitz was a physicist, president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1962 until 1969, and president of Rockefeller University from 1968 through 1978 . ]
F. 424 Smith, Sam Corry [Smith was a biochemist and was director of grants for Research Corporation during the 1960s. In 1975, he became executive director of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, a position he held until 1988.]
F. 425 T-V, Miscellaneous [Includes Sheila Tobias; Byron K. Trippet; Joan S. Valentine. Note: See also special archives: Charles Hard Townes]
F. 426 Van Allen, James [Van Allen was an American astrophysicist at the University of Iowa. The Van Allen radiation belts, which he discovered, were named after him. He also is credited with discovery of a new moon of Saturn in 1979, as well as radiation belts around that planet. ]
F. 427 van de Graaff, Robert Jemison [Van de Graaff was an American physicist and instrument maker, and professor of physics at Princeton University. He invented the Van de Graaff generator, an electrostatic machine which uses a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal globe . ]
F. 428 VanderWerf, Calvin A. [VanderWerf was president of Hope College, then a chemistry professor and head of the College of Arts and Sciences at University of Florida. He served on the Research Corporation Board of Directors.]
F. 429 W-Z, Miscellaneous [Includes Theodore M. Welp; David A. Wiersma; Laurel L. Wilkening; Francis S. Williams; Robert M. Williams; Roger J. Williams; James P. Wolfe. Note: See also special archives: Williams-Waterman]
F. 430 Walcott, Charles Doolittle [Walcott was a paleontologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927. He was instrumental in helping Cottrell establish Research Corporation. Included are papers of Walcott’s son, Sidney Walcott.]
F. 431 White, Harry J. [White was a physicist who did graduate work with E.O. Lawrence. He worked for Research Corporation from 1935 to 1960, studying electrostatic precipitation.]
F. 432 Woodward, Robert B. [Woodward was a chemist who synthesized chlorophyll, strychnine, cholesterol, lysergic acid, reserpine and many other complex products. He was a Nobel laureate.]
Record series IV: Grants
Grants, General
F. 433-434 Applications for Grants, 1938-1939
F. 435-451 Correspondence, 1931-1965 [Includes letters from Karl Compton, president of MIT; C.G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; H.A. Barton, director of the American Institute of Physics; Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University; R.J. Van de Graaff of MIT; E.O. Lawrence; J.W. Barker of Columbia University; Robert R. Williams; Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation; letter written in German requesting money for equipment for a school, dated February 9, 1931, with photograph of group of school children attached; letter from Richard D. Kleeman, The Physical Laboratory at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. asking Research Corporation to publish two books on thermodynamics; letter dated 1929 from H. Greger of Akita Mining College in Japan requesting money to pay workers for their help with his research.]
F. 452 Development /Program Support Efforts [In the early 1970s, Research Corporation began a Program Support campaign to generate financial support from other corporations/ foundations. The project was headed by J.W. “Jack” Powers who had previously been a regional based in Atlanta. Files include correspondence with the National Science Foundation, Council on Foundations, Science magazine, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation; proposals; memoranda regarding meetings with organizations such as the Corn Refiners Association and American Society for Testing Materials; and photographs of a Westinghouse representative presenting a check to Research Corporation President James Coles], 1975-1982
F. 453 Early Grants and Grantees, lists and miscellaneous, 1912-1982
F. 454 Early Grants and Grantees, University of Arkansas, Barnett Sure, 1938-1940
Box 33, F. 455-471
F. 455 Early Grants and Grantees, California Institute of Technology, S.R. Atkinson, 1939-1941
F. 456-458 Early Grants and Grantees, California Institute of Technology, E.R. Buchman and J. Bonner [Includes several letters signed Linus Pauling], 1937-1941
F. 459 Early Grants and Grantees, University of California, E.O. Lawrence, Correspondence with Chemical Foundation, 1934-1935
F. 460 Early Grants and Grantees, University of California, L.B. Loeb and R.T. Birge, 1937-1940
F. 461 Early Grants and Grantees, University of California, A.P. Krueger, 1937-1939
F. 462 Early Grants and Grantees, Catholic University, F.O. Rice, 1936-1951
F. 463 Early Grants and Grantees, University of Chicago, W.D. Harkins, 1937-1938
F. 464-470 Early Grants and Grantees, University of Chicago and Research Corporation Development Laboratory of Chicago, M.S. Kharasch and M.H. Daskais, Correspondence, 1935-1950
F. 471 Early Grants and Grantees, University of Chicago and Research Corporation Development Laboratory of Chicago, M.S. Kharasch and M.H. Daskais, Miscellaneous
Box 34, F. 472-483
F. 472 Early Grants and Grantees, Columbia University, A. Kolin, 1941-1944 [Includes letter of reference from Albert Einstein]
F. 473 Early Grants and Grantees, Columbia University, V. Paschkis, 1940-1947
F. 474 Early Grants and Grantees, Columbia University, I.I. Rabi, Cyclotron, 1937-1941
F. 475 Early Grants and Grantees, Columbia University, Miscellaneous Projects, 1937-1942
F. 476 Early Grants and Grantees, Columbia University, Reports [Includes Low Temperature Research by Shirley L. Quimby and Harold C. Urey; The Columbia Microphotometer by G.B. Pegram and H.W. Webb; Chemical and Biochemical Investigations with Artificial Radioactive Indicators by G.B. Pegram and L.P. Hammett]
F. 477 Early Grants and Grantees, Cornell University, R.C. Gibbs, 1937-1941
F. 478 Early Grants and Grantees, Harvard College Observatory, H. Shapley and B.J. Bok [Bok was born in the Netherlands in 1906. He directed astronomical observatories at Harvard, Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra , Australia, and the Steward Laboratory in Tucson. Bok died in Tucson in 1983 .], 1949-1953
F. 479-483 Early Grants and Grantees, Harvard and Commission on Plasma Fractionation and Related Processes, E.J. Cohn [Cohn was an early protein scientist. He made important advances in the physical chemistry of proteins, and was responsible for the blood fractionation project that saved thousands of lives in World War II.], Correspondence, 1944-1950
Box 35, F. 484-494
F. 484-487 Early Grants and Grantees, Harvard and Commission on Plasma Fractionation and Related Processes, E.J. Cohn, Correspondence, 1950-1957
F. 488 Early Grants and Grantees, Harvard and Commission on Plasma Fractionation and Related Processes, E.J. Cohn, Miscellaneous
F. 489 Early Grants and Grantees, Harvard and Commission on Plasma Fractionation and Related Processes, E.J. Cohn, Publications
F. 490 Early Grants and Grantees, Harvard, Hickman and C.S. Hurlbut Jr., 1939-1940
F. 491 Early Grants and Grantees, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [Includes correspondence relating to grants to R.J. Van de Graaff (Van de Graaff invented a constant-potential electrostatic generator later known as the Van de Graaff generator. Widely used in atomic research, the device was also adapted to produce high-energy xrays for medical and industrial uses.) and F.G. Keyes (Keyes was a physical chemist who made notable theoretical and experimental advances in thermodynamics, equations of state of gases, and thermodynamic properties, in particular liquid water and steam.)], Correspondence, 1941-1942
F. 492-494 Early Grants and Grantees, Rutgers University, W. Rudolfs (Rudolfs was a primary force in industrial waste research. The Willem Rudolfs medal, awarded to an industrial employee for noteworthy accomplishments in any aspect of industrial waste control, is named in his honor.), Correspondence, 1934-1935
Box 36, F. 495-504
F. 495-496 Early Grants and Grantees, Rutgers University, W. Rudolfs, 1936-1940
F. 497 Early Grants and Grantees, Santa Clara County Hospital, San Jose, California, F. Proescher, 1940
F. 498 Early Grants and Grantees, Stanford University, W.J. Crook, (Crook was professor of metallurgy at Stanford. He was the godson of Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, with whom his father was associated in Australian business ventures. Professor Crook joined the faculty in 1927. He retired in 1951 but continued almost until his death to report daily to his laboratory in the School of Earth Sciences. He was the author of Abacus Arithmetic.), Correspondence, 1937-1939
F. 499 Early Grants and Grantees, Stanford University, W.J. Crook, Miscellaneous
F. 500 Early Grants and Grantees, Stanford University, J.W. McBain (McBain made many contributions to colloid science including: the discovery of the association of surfactant molecules in solution above a critical concentration, the experimental verification of the Gibbs equation relating surface and bulk concentration, and devising the McBain quartz spiral spring for measuring the mass of adsorbed gases on porous solids .), 1934-1941
F. 501 Early Grants and Grantees, Stanford University, D.L. Webster (This application was denied by the foundation.), 1947
F. 502 Early Grants and Grantees, Stevens Institute of Technology, H. Burris-Meyer (Burris-Meyer was an American engineer who applied audio and acoustic technology to the live theater.)
F. 503 Early Grants and Grantees, Stevens Institute of Technology, K. Davidson (In 1935, Davidson established founded one of the largest and most renowned hydrodynamic and ocean engineering research facilities in the U.S. at Stevens Institute of Technology.), Correspondence, 1936-1941
F. 504 Early Grants and Grantees, Stevens Institute of Technology, K. Davidson, Miscellaneous
Box 37, F. 505-522
F. 505-509 Early Grants and Grantees, Stevens Institute of Technology, Human Engineering Laboratory, J. O’Connor (O'Connor is known as "the father of aptitude testing.” His Human Engineering Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology tested hundreds of thousands of people, then concluded that a powerful vocabulary is directly linked to success in the worlds of business, academia or politics.), 1935-1943
F. 510 Early Grants and Grantees, Stevens Institute of Technology, Miscellaneous
F. 511 Early Grants and Grantees, University of Texas, R.J. Williams, 1945-1950
F. 512 Early Grants and Grantees, University of Virginia, J.W. Beams and A. Chanutin, Correspondence, 1938-1941
F. 513 Early Grants and Grantees, University of Virginia, J.W. Beams and A. Chanutin, Miscellaneous
F. 514 Financial Information, General
F. 515 Financial, Treasurer’s Department, 1941-1944
F. 516 Grants and Grantees [This project was coordinated by Brian Andreen. After weeding grants files, materials were scanned and saved on CDs. The first twelve disks are Cottrell Research Grants; the remaining disks contain the beginning of the Cottrell College Science Awards. Those awards are numbered “C” or “CC.” Unfortunately, no inventory was made of the files on each CD so the information is somewhat difficult to access. Work is under way to create an inventory of each disk.]
F. 517 National Science Teachers Association [Includes interesting notes on whether or not the NSTA was a subversive organization, ca. 1954], 1954-1958
F. 518 New programs and changes to existing programs, notes
F. 519 Newspaper clippings re: grants [Note: See also scrapbooks]
F. 520 Philosophy [Includes “Note Concerning the Minutes of the March 26, 1959 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Grants,” 1959; “Strengthening the Sciences in the Liberal Arts Colleges,” 1966; “Guidelines for Departmental Grant Proposals,” 1966; “A Philosophy for the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Grants Program,” 1971; and “Purposes and Evaluation of Research Corporation Grants,” n.d.]
F. 521 Praise for Grants programs
F. 522 Program Advisory Committee/Science Advisory Committee
Box 38 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to grants programs, 1924 through 1929
Box 39 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to grants programs, January 1963 through December 1968
Box 40 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to grants programs, January 1969 through December 1974
Box 41 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to grants programs, 1975 through 1981
BOX 42, F. 523-532
F. 523 Reports on Research, 1931 [Includes reports on Investigation of the Breaking of Rock Structures under Their Own Weight by Philip B. Bucky; Photoelastic Investigations by George B. Karelitz; Recording Microphotometer; Molecular Beam Experiments by I.I. Rabi; and Heat Exchange and Dust Settler for Blast Furnace Gases]
F. 524 Reports on Research, 1932 [Includes reports by Division of Radiation and Organisms, International Auxiliary Language Association in the U.S., Radiation Laboratory of the University of California and R.J. Van de Graaff and K.T. Compton]
F. 525 Reports on Research, 1933 [Includes reports by C.G. Abbot, F.S. Brackett, K.T. Compton and L.C. Van Atta and R.J. Van de Graaff, E.O. Lawrence, M.S. Kharasch, J. O’Connor, H.N. Shenton, W.T. Swingle and Pfiffner and J.L. Crane Jr.]
F. 526 Reports on Research, 1934 [Includes reports by C.G. Abbot, R.J. Van de Graaff, J.G. Trump, E.O. Lawrence, H.N. Shenton, J. O’Connor, W.T. Swingle, W.M. Malisoff, J.J. Pfiffner, F.S. Brackett and M.S. Kharasch]
F. 527 Reports on Research, 1935 [Includes reports by C.G. Abbot, E.O. Lawrence, R.J. Van de Graaff, John G. Trump, L.A. DuBridge, S.M. Davidson, H.N. Shenton, J. O’Connor, J.J. Pfiffner, M.S. Kharasch, W.M. Malisoff, W.T. Swingle and a summary of activities of Research Associates Inc.]
F. 528 Reports on Research, 1936 [Includes reports by C.G. Abbot, E.O. Lawrence, K. Davidson, H. Burris-Meyer, Stevens Institute of Technology, R.J. Van de Graaff and associates, J.G. Trump, H.N. Shenton, T. Franck and J.A. Bearden, R.D. Fowler, Columbia University, R.T. Birge, L.A. DuBridge, M.S. Kharasch, W.D. Harkins, W. Rudolfs, J.W. McBain and reports on ephedra project.]
F. 529 Reports on Research, 1937 [Includes reports by C.G. Abbot, J.G. Aston, H. Burris-Meyer, W.J. Crook, A.L. Durbridge, R.C. Gibbs, K. Lark-Horovitz, W.D. Harkins, M.S. Kharasch, E.O. Lawrence, L.B. Loeb, J.W. McBain, J. O’Connor, S.P. Horton, G.B. Pegram and H.W. Webb, G.B. Pegram and L.P. Hammett, I.I. Rabi, H.C. Urey and S.L. Quimby, F.O. Rice, W. Rudolfs, J.G. Trump, L.C. Van Atta and reports of patents granted and applied for under MIT-RC patent agreement]
F. 530 Reports on Research, 1938 [Includes reports by E.O. Lawrence, A.L. DuBridge, G.B. Pedgram, R.D. Fowler, L.C. Van Atta and R.J. Van de Graaff, I.I. Rabi, J.W. Beams, J.W. McBain, H.C. Urey, L.P. Hammett and J.R. Dunningk A. Chanutin, J.G. Aston, D.H. Andrews, F.O. Rice, C.G. Abbot, A.P. Krueger, B. Sure and R.M. Theis, W. Bleakney, L.B. Loeb, J.V. Irwin, J. O’Connor, W. Rudolfs and a report of patents granted and applied for under MIT-RC patent agreement]
F. 531 Reports on Research, 1939 [Includes reports by E.O. Lawrence, R.J. Van de Graaff and L.C. Van Atta, G.B. Pegram, L.R. Hammet and John R. Dunning, I.I. Rabi, J.W. Beams, J.W. McBain, D.H. Andrews, F.O. Rice, C.S. Hurlbut Jr., C.G. Abbot, B. Sure, L.B. Loeb, J.V. Irwin and J. O’Connor]
F. 532 Reports on Research, 1940 [Includes reports by E.O. Lawrence, G.B. Pegram, I.I. Rabi, R.J. Van de Graaff, R.F. Bacher, J.W. McBain, J.W. Beams, J.A. Bearden, O.M. Arnold, F.G. Keyes, L.B. Loeb, F.O. Rice, C.G. Abbot, B. Sure, J. O’Connor and Mary Bray]
BOX 43, F. 533-549
F. 533 Reports on Research, 1941 [Includes reports by E.O. Lawrence, A. Kolin, R.J. Van de Graaff, J.W. McBain, J.V. Atanasoff, D.H. Andrews, A.H. Corwin, J.G. Aston, J.L. Rosenholtz, L.B. Loeb, W.W. Swingle, O.M. Arnold, C.G. Abbot, Mary Bray and J. O’Connor]
Grants, Programs (Information arranged chronologically)
F. 534 Fellowship in Applied Science, 1916-1917
F. 535 Grants-in-Aid of Postwar Scientific Research, 1945 [Established to help U.S. scientists and universities restart their research programs after World War II.]
F. 536 Cottrell Research Grants, 1946-1986 [This program was established in 1946 to stimulate science teaching in smaller colleges and universities through the promotion of research. Areas supported include astrophysics, anti-malarial, chemistry, electronics, engineering, psychology, mathematics, nuclear physics and forestry. The program was terminated in 1950 after five years of operation and approximately $2.5 million in expenditures. Four hundred and sixty-four grants were made to 217 institutions, the vast majority of which were liberal arts colleges and small universities.]
F. 537 Howard Andrews Poillon Fund [The Howard Andrews Poillon Fund was a discretionary fund for the use of the foundation’s president in support of worthy causes outside its normal grants program], 1948-1967
F. 538 Kendall-Hench Fund, 1949-1957 [Edward Calvin (aka E.C. and Nick) Kendall and Philip Showalter Hench (both working at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota) successfully applied an adrenal hormone (later known as cortisone) in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in 1948. Kendall, Hench and Tadeus Reichstein of Switzerland received the Nobel Prize for Physiology orMedicine in 1950 for discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects. The Kendall-Hench Fund was established by a $100,000 grant from Merck & Co. and an allotment by Research Corporation of a portion of its income from patent rights in cortisone. The grants were designed to support research in endocrinology; however, the research area proved too narrow and the program lapsed. In 1951, when Kendall retired from the Mayo Foundation, he accepted the position of Visiting Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Princeton University (a position funded by the Kendall-Hench Fund) to continue his research.], Annual Reports on Research, 1954-1971
F. 539 Kendall-Hench Fund, Awards [Nobel prize winners dinner, hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barker of Research Corporation, November 20, 1950 at the Waldorf Astoria]
F. 540 Kendall-Hench Fund, Cortisone conference, Commodore Hotel, New York, September 1949
F. 541 Kendall-Hench Fund, Cortisone conference, July 27, 1951
F. 542-549 Kendall-Hench Fund, Correspondence [Contains voluminous correspondence during the late 1940s and early 1950s], 1941-October 1949
BOX 44, F. 550-558
F. 550-558 Kendall-Hench Fund, Correspondence, November 1949-1954
BOX 45, F. 559-570
F. 559-564 Kendall-Hench Fund, Correspondence 1955-1972
F. 565-566 Kendall-Hench Fund, Legal Documents
F. 567 Kendall-Hench Fund, Manuscripts
F. 568 Kendall-Hench Fund, Meetings
F. 569 Kendall-Hench Fund, Miscellaneous
F. 570 Kendall-Hench Fund, Patents
BOX 46, F. 571-585
F. 571 Kendall-Hench Fund, Press
F. 572 Kendall-Hench Fund, Publications
F. 573 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund [Jones and Mangelsdorf invented a process for growing hybrid seed corn in 1949. They assigned their patent to Research Corporation and a program was funded from the royalties. The goal of the awards was to support good science and encourage basic cytogenetics research.], ca. 1955 Announcements and Applications
F. 574-580 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund, Correspondence, 1950-1982
F. 581 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund, Evaluation
F. 582 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund, Miscellaneous
F. 583 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund, National Academy of Sciences Progress Report, 1971
F. 584 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund, Legal Documents
F. 585 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund, Meetings, 1971-1972
BOX 47, F. 586-607
F. 586-589 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Manelsdorf Fund, Meetings, 1973-1976
F. 590 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund, Press
F. 591 Donald F. Jones-Paul C. Mangelsdorf Fund, Publications
F. 592 Summer Grants, 1953
F. 593 Departmental Grants [These grants were intended to fund upgrading individual science departments or divisions according to plans drawn by the institutions. Those awarded included Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Occidental College, Los Angeles, California; Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania; Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina; and Hope College, Hope, Michigan.], 1958-1968
F. 594 Unrestricted Venture Grant [These grants were designed to identify talented young scientists and provide them with money for three years, to be used at their discretion in their research.]: Smith College, Mount Holyoke, Amherst College and University of Massachusetts [Combined effort of four universities to provide high-quality teaching in astronomy.], 1959-1976
F. 595 Joseph H. DeFrees Endowment, 1964-1981
F. 596 Grant in aid to University of New Brunswick [Grant to bring four scientists to the university to appraise its physics, geology, biology and chemistry departments.], 1966-1967
F. 597 Joseph Warren Barker Fellowship in Engineering, 1966-1976
[See also special archives for Brown-Hazen and Williams-Waterman funds]
F. 598 Cottrell College Science Awards (formerly called Frederick Gardner Cottrell Grants and Cottrell College Science Grants), 1946-present [This initiative began formally in 1971 as an extension of the program that was started in 1946 under the name of Frederick Gardner Cottrell Grants. Its purpose was to promote involvement in research by faculty and students in predominately undergraduate colleges. A motivation for the program stemmed from the realization that the majority of science majors attending graduate school were the products of liberal arts colleges.]
F. 599 Norman Joliffe Fellowship, 1970
F. 600 Gilbert Dalldorf Fellowship Program, 1978-1990
F. 601 Research Opportunity Awards, 1987-present. [Started in 1988 to address the problems of successful mid-career scientists who have lost funding for research for valid reasons (e.g. return to teaching after an administrative assignment, change of direction in research, termination of an agency program, etc.).], Applications, brochures and flyers, survey results
F. 602 Partners in Science, 1988-1999 [This program began in 1988, intended as Research Corporation’s response to nationally expressed concerns about the quality of science education in our secondary schools, the preparedness of high school science teachers in their subject matter, and the limited involvement of college and university faculty members with the high school community. Partnerships were created between high school teachers and faculty members and two summers were spent in the laboratory or field doing scientific research. An annual conference was held during which teachers had an opportunity to present their research and experiences. The program has been national in scope. In 1990, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust joined Research Corporation in funding the program in the Pacific Northwest and providing some additional support services to partners in that region. When Research Corporation discontinued this program in 1998, the Murdock Trust continued the program in the Pacific Northwest.], Applications, Brochures and Flyers
F. 603 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Enriching Science Teaching through Research,” presentations by Glenn A. Crosby, Washington State University on “Science Education at the Interface: Dissolving the Boundaries”; Neville J. Woolf, University of Arizona on “The Liberal Sciences,” 1988
F. 604 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Science Research: The Boundless Frontier,” presentations by Sheila Tobias on “What Makes Science Hard?”; Robert L. Park of American Physical Society on “A Palladium Curtain Descends over Utah”; Stephen Thompson of Colorado State University on “Learning Science by Doing It—A Heresy or the New Way?”; Susan Adams Nye of General Electric on “Silicone Polyimides from Siloxane-Equilibrated Dianhydrides”; and Peter Strittmatter of University of Arizona on “Frontiers of Astronomy,” 1989
F. 605 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Stalking the Second Tier,” presentations by Donald Huffman of University of Arizona on “C 60, A New Form of Carbon”; Paul Saltman of University of California San Diego on “Breakfast of Champions…Nutrition and Athletic Performance”; Sheila Tobias on “What Did We Learn from our Learners?”; John Brooks Slaughter of Occidental College on “Filling the Pipeline with Excellence through Equity,” 1991
F. 606 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Global Climate Change,” presentations by Ralph Cicerone of University of California, Irvine on “How Small Changes in Atmospheric Chemical Composition Cause Ozone Depletion and Climate Change”; Margaret Tolbert of University of Colorado, Boulder on “Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: An Example of Ongoing Global Change”; George D. Nelson of University of Washington on “Personal View of the Planet—The Space Perspective”; Robert E. Dickinson of University of Arizona on “Man-induced Changes in Global Climate, Projections of What They Will Be and How to Look for Them: What We Do and Don’t Know”; and Paul Handler of University of Illinois on “The Impact of Volcanic Aerosols on Global Climate,” 1992
F. 607 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Detectives in Science,” presentations by Arthur Ellis of University of Wisconsin and George Lisensky of Beloit College on “A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of Four or How Holmes Deduced the Big from the Little”; Lawrence Kaplan of Williams College on “The Evidence Never Lies—Student Detectives in the Laboratory”; Bryant Bannister of University of Arizona on “Andrew Ellicott Douglass: A Detective in Science,” 1993
BOX 48, F. 608-625
F. 608 Partners in Science Awards conference, “The World of Molecular Biology: Science with a Twist,” presentations by Brian W. Matthews, University of Oregon on “Proteins: Folding, Form and Function”; Thomas R. Cech of University of Colorado, Boulder on “The Discovery of RNA Catalysis” Carol L. Cech of Somatogen on “The Road to Artificial Blood,” 1994
F. 609 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Reaching for the Stars,” presentations by Eugene Shoemaker of U.S. Geological Survey on “The Clementine Mission to the Moon” and “The Crash of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter”; Christopher Impey of University of Arizona on “Cosmic Catastrophes,”1995
F. 610 Partners in Science Awards conference, “DNA: The Fabric of Designer Genes,” presentations by Leroy Hood, University of Washington on “The Human Genome Project: Implications for Biology and Medicine of the 21 st Century” and “Ethical, Social and Legal Dilemmas of the New Genetics”; Davis Galas of Darwin Molecular Corporation on “Peeking at the Blueprints—Gene Discovery and Modern Biology”1996
F. 611 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Outer Space/Inner Space,” presentations by Leon Lederman of Illinois Institute of Technology on “From Quarks to the Cosmos” and “The Ever More Pressing Problem of Science Literacy—‘We Will Fight on the Beaches’”; George Smoot of University of California, Berkeley on “Observing the Early Universe,” 1997
F. 612 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Science in Space: A Close Look,” presentations by Fernando Caldeiro of NASA on “Science on the Space Shuttle”; Robert G. Strom of University of Arizona on “Ancient Oceans and Ice Sheets on Mars”; Billy Joe Evans of University of Michigan on “Special Mentor Section: Are We There Yet?” 1998
F. 613 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Metals for Life and Energy,” presentations by Thomas V. O’Halloran of Northwestern University on “Heavy Metals in Concert with Life: Chaperones are Important, But Are They Easily Fooled?” and Harry B. Gray of California Institute of Technology on “Clean Fuel from Solar Photochemistry,” 1999
F. 614 Partners in Science Awards conference, “Chemical Communication,” presentations by M. Bonner Denton of University of Arizona on “Advances in the Application of Array Detectors for Improved Chemical Analysis”; Jerrold Meinwald of Cornell University on “Sex, Violence and Drugs in the World of Insects: A Chemists’ View,” 2000
F. 615 Partners in Science newsletters, 1989-1995
F. 616 Partners in Science supplemental awards, 1992-2001
F. 617 Department Development Award, General, 1991-present [This program in its modern guise was initiated in 1991. It is motivated by a conviction that the foundation staff’s knowledge and experiences can be used to accelerate the evolution and advancement of carefully selected college science departments. Awards are based on a mutually agreed upon set of goals and consist of significant financial commitments from both the institution and Research Corporation. Consultants are used extensively.], Miscellaneous
F. 618 Department Development Award, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 1991
F. 619 Department Development Award, Hendrix College, 1993
F. 620 Department Development Award, Lawrence University, 1995
[Note: Western Washington University received a DDA in 2000; no information has been made available to the archives]
F. 621 Cottrell Scholar Awards [Initiated in 1994, this program was designed to emphasize the dual importance of teaching and research in a research university.], 1994-present
F. 622 Cottrell Scholar Awards, conference, 2004
F. 623 Cottrell Scholar Awards, conference, 2005
[Note: No materials available on 2006 Cottrell Scholar Awards conference]
F. 624 Cottrell Scholar Awards, conference, 2007
F. 625 Research Innovation Awards, 1997-2004. RIA awards were initiated in 1997 as an effort to re-enter the university community as a funding source in the sciences.
BOX 49, F. 626-638
Manuscripts, Internal Annual Reports
F. 626 1926 [RC had assets of about $145,000; One grant, to Robert Goddard (then at Clark University in Wooster, Massachusetts) for his work on rocketry was made in the amount of $2,500.]
F. 627 1931 [The concept of Research Corporation being an organization that others might “submit patentable ideas to, for the purpose of having it obtain patents and commercializing those it thought worthwhile” was discussed. Grants: Smithsonian Institution $20,000 for study of radiation;International Auxiliary Language Association $4,000 for investigation of international language (Esperanto); Leland Stanford Junior University (now Stanford University) $2,500 for vibration research in connection with earthquakes; Columbia University $3,000 for a recording microphotometer, a velocity sorter for molecular beam experiments and for photoelastic investigations; Harvard University $2,750 for equipment to prevent atmospheric pollution at its medical school; Smithsonian $1,000 to develop an instrument for analyzing meteorological and solar data; Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research $1,500 for study of micro-ray cell puncture; Stevens Institute of Technology up to $10,250 to pay laid-off Research Corporation employees who are willing to work at Stevens; MIT $10,000 for equipment to help Van de Graaff construct high-voltage generator; and University of California $5,000 in aid of E.O. Lawrence’s work. 1930 Research Corporation Awards presented to Andrew E. Douglass for tree-ring research and Ernst Antevs for study of glacial sediment deposits]
F. 628 1932 [Deals with sales and installation of precipitators. No doubt due to the Depression, workers’ compensation had been reduced by 10 percent, but plans were to retain all employees on either part- or full-time basis. Cottrell and others visited educational institutions]
F. 629 1933 [Deals with sales and installation of precipitators. Grants as follows: Smithsonian Institution for continued study of radiation, $15,000; International Auxiliary Language Association for studies on establishing an international language, $4,000; MIT for development of Van de Graaff generator, $2,500; Stevens Institute of Technology for investigating the effect of English teaching on engineering school students, $1,000; and University of Chicago to support work of M.S. Kharasch, $2,950]
F. 630 1934 [Electrical precipitation main business of Research Corporation. Other projects: Multiclones, static dust collectors; Coey Forced Draft Water Cooling Tower; Downs Air Conditioning System; Tennessee Valley Authority; Rudolfs-Slagle Sewage System; Royster Rheoclastic Stove; Sloan X-Ray Machine; Brackett Non-glare Headlight; Spherules, a filler in cleaning compounds and soaps; Sintering Method for processing fly ash; Synthetic Pile Fabrics; Stabilization of Ergot; and New Chemical Reaction by J.M. Weiss. Grants to Smithsonian Institution, International Auxiliary Language Association, MIT, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of California, Princeton University; Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago and Rutgers University]
F. 631 1945-1946 [First full year of peacetime operations after WWII. Establishment of separate grants department at Research Corporation, headed by R.R. Williams. Frederick Gardner Cottrell Grants Program initiated; 34 grants were made to 24 institutions; six colleges and universities had entered into agreements with Research Corporation for patent administration]
F. 632 1946-1947 [Thirty-seven General Grants ($240,080.00), One-hundred and thirty-two Cottrell Grants ($510,000.00) and 44 Williams-Waterman Grants ($218,430)]
F. 633 1947-1948 [Frederick Gardner Cottrell died November 16, 1948. New or renewed grants totaled $750,000.00. R.R. Williams director of grants; Research Corporation Award presented to Lee A. DuBridge, president of CalTech]
F. 634 1948-1949 [Two-hundred and seventeen Cottrell Grants ($510,389.00) and Seventy General Grants (321,832.00) were awarded. Williams-Waterman Fund granted total of $225,062.00. Frederick Arthur Goetze, one of the founders of Research Corporation, died on March 7, 1950; 1949 Research Corporation Award to Edward Calvin Kendall of the Mayo Foundation for his fundamental steroid chemical development of cortisone]
F. 635 1950-1951 [Fifty-three General Grants ($228,000), One hundred and ninety-one Cottrell Grants ($359,786.00), 43 Williams-Waterman Grants ($265,000) and one Kendall-Hench Fund grant $22,500), total of $875,000; Board member Boris Alexander Bakhmeteff died 6/21/51; Nicholas Milas patent for synthesis of Vitamin A and Jones-Mangelsdorf patent both acquired by Research Corporation : 1950 Research Corporation Award to Edwin M. McMillan, professor of physics at University of California for invention of the synchrotron and synchrocyclotron and as co-discoverer of neptunium and plutonium]
F. 636 1951-1952 [Sixty-one General Grants ($249,414), 147 Cottrell Grants ($309,326) and 50 Williams-Waterman Fund ($238,949) in place. Total grants $797,689. Statement regarding “subversive” activities of grantees or their institutions (i.e., McCarthy hearings); 1951 Research Corporation Award to W.F. Libby, physical chemist at University of Chicago for development of the technique of radiocarbon dating]
F. 637 1952-1953 [General Grants ($268,839), Cottrell Grants ($419,742) and Williams-Waterman Grants ($155,702) in place. Total grants $744,283. 1952 Research Corporation Award to H.S. Black, electrical engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories for invention and development of the negative feedback system, a major advance in electronics]
F. 638 1953-1954 [Nystatin first appears on market; in October 1954, Precipitation Division of Research Corporation separated from the foundation and became Research-Cottrell, a wholly owned subsidiary; Two-hundred and thirty-nine Cottrell Grants and General Grants combined for a total of $595,000, Thirty-two Williams-Waterman Grants ($191,000) and West German Grants programs in place. Also Kendall-Hench Fund; Howard A. Poillon (RC president from 1927-1944) died in 1954; the 1954 Research Corporation Award for Contribution to Science awarded to Willis E. Lamb Jr., professor of physics at Stanford]
Box 50 F. 639-646
F. 639 1954-1955 [First year of new organizational plan wherein all foundation activities operated under Research Corporation and all precipitator-related activities operated under Research-Cottrell, Inc.; Discussion of the state of public high schools in the U.S. and the Secondary School Pilot Program in Connecticut; One-hundred and sixty-eight Cottrell grants totaling $385,000 and Seventy-seven General grants totaling $233,000; 1955 Research Corporation Award presented to Robert B. Woodward, professor of chemistry at Harvard; Institutions using Research Corporation’s patent development program totaled eighty-two]
F. 640 1956 [Joe Barker’s last year as president of Research Corporation ; Eighty-nine colleges and universities had entered into agreements with Research Corporation for patent administration; 1956 Research Corporation Award to Claude E. Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories for his work related to information theory; Patent issued on Jay Forrester’s (MIT) multi-coordinate digital information storage device]
F. 641 1957 [J. William Hinkley’s first year as president of Research Corporation; Brown-Hazen program of grants in the medical-biological science was established]
F. 642 1958 [Reports that Research Corporation at that time had “patent agreements with most of the major institutions throughout the country excepting several of the large state universities”; Sputnik I launched on October 4, 1957, prompting reflection on science and science education in the U.S.; Research Corporation disbursed about $1.25 million in grants; Hal Ramsey joined Research Corporation ; Research Corporation Award presented to Chien-Shiung Wu for the experimental demonstration of parity non-conservation]
F. 643 1959 [Grants of $1,198,000; discussion of newer, bigger foundations impinging on Research Corporation ’s tradition; Research Corporation Award made to Melvin Calvin, professor of chemistry at University of California, for investigations of the photosynthetic process]
F. 644 1960 [MIT suspended its licensing program for the Forrester patent with Research Corporation ; Three-hundred and three grants made, totaling $1,182,000; Rudolf L. Mössbauer selected for the Research Corporation Award for his discovery of the Mössbauer Effect which involves the emission and absorption of gamma rays from the excited states of a nucleus]
F. 645 1961 [Two-hundred and twenty grants made, totaling $898,300; Last year of West German program; Research Corporation Award presented to Francis H.C. Crick and James D. Watson; Vitamin B 1 patent expired]
F. 646 1962 (one copy) [MIT cancelled agreement with Research Corporation; Research Corporation awardee Bernd T. Matthias]
BOX 51, F. 647-657
F. 647 1963 [Losses reported for Research-Cottrell; Research Corporation Award to Paul J. Cohen of Stanford and Heisuke Hironaka of Brandeis for mathematics]
F. 648 1964 [ Brian Andreen joined Research Corporation as its Midwest representative; Discretionary Funds referred to as “our on-the-spot gambling money”; Research Corporation Award presented to physicist William M. Fairbank of Stanford University for his work in very low temperature physics]
F. 649 1965 [Research-Cottrell’s business improving; Robert R. Williams died; Research Corporation Award to Neil Bartlettt, professor of chemistry at University of British Columbia, for his work with the preparation of xenon hexafluoroplatinate]
F. 650 1966 [Grants of almost $3 million, the largest amount ever for the foundation; Research Corporation Award (now granted to awardee’s institution rather than the individual) was awarded to Marshall W. Nirenberg for his “pioneering work in the discovery of the mechanism through which the code in genetic material determines the proteins synthesized by a cell”]
F. 651 1967 [J. William Hinkley died; James Stacy Coles succeeded Hinkley as president of Research Corporation; Research-Cottrell went public and 300,000 shares of stock were sold and Research Corporation divested almost one-third of its total ownership of the company; Research Corporation Award made to Val Logsdon Fitch and James Watson Cronin for “their demonstration that the combined symmetry of parity and of chargeconjugation is not, as had been previously believed, a universal symmetry of nature”; a fourth regional representative was added to Research Corporation ’s staff]
F. 652 1968 [Government funding decreases, and the needs of researchers because of those decreased, inspire Research Corporation to create larger grants programs; Field office opened in Atlanta; Grants payments of $2.6 million; Discussion of whether the Research Corporation Award should be continued produced the conclusion that, although the award should be continued, it could be handled more effectively; Research Corporation Award presented to Murray Gell-Mann for “contributions of highest significance to the theory of elementary particles and, specifically, for his prediction of the Omega Minus particle; Two-hundred and seventy awards approved, totaling $1,991,900; Research Corporation received $23 million from its sale of one-third of its Research-Cottrell stock (1,725,000 shares)]
F. 653 1969 (one copy with label citing “Corrected as of 2/18/70”) Three-hundred and seventy-four grants awarded, totaling $2.53 million; no mention of Research Corporation Award]
[Note: During the 1970s, internal annual reports became much less chatty and much more finance-oriented]
F. 654 1970 [Contains external annual report and separate financials (internal annual report) for the foundation; Four-hundred and seventy-seven grants approved, totaling $3.5 million]
F. 655 1971 [Contains external annual report and separate financials (internal annual report) for the foundation; Four-hundred and eighty-nine grants approved, totaling $5.9 million; new programs: Cottrell College Science Program, Donald F. Jones Fund (a program with a limited life, funded by monies generated by the Jones-Mangelsdorf patent)]
F. 656 1972 [Contains external annual report and separate financials (internal annual report) for the foundation; Townes Fund initiated using a portion of Townes’ patent on the laser, fund to have a four-year lifespan; Four-hundred and twenty-six grants approved, totaling $3.5 million]
F. 657 1973 [Contains external annual report and separate financials (internal annual report) for the foundation; Four-hundred and twenty-two grants approved, totaling $3.9 million; 70 testimonials (related to the good deeds done by Research Corporation ) extracted from letters of over 70 college presidents and Principle Investigators]
BOX 52, F. 658-666
F. 658 1974 [Contains external annual report and separate financials (internal annual report) for the foundation; Four-hundred and thirty-three grants totaling $3.9 million were approved; drop in market value of Research Corporation ’s investment portfolio and increase in needs of scientific and academic communities; John Schaefer elected to Research Corporation’s Board; patent on Nystatin expired]
F. 659 1975 [One copy contains external annual report and separate financials (internal annual report) for the foundation and second copy of only internal report; Three-hundred and twenty-four grants approved, totaling $2.6 million; J.W. Barker (RC president from 1947 to 1959) and Elizabeth Hazen (co-inventor of Nystatin) died; Sam Smith resigned Research Corporation to become director of the then-new M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust]
F. 660 1976 [Contains external annual report and separate financials (internal annual report) for the foundation; Three-hundred and seven grants totaling $3.3 million were approved; Research Corporation’s 65 th anniversary; Cooperative grants in concert with Hercules Inc., National Starch and Chemical Corp., Pennwalt Corp., Schering-Plough Corp. and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust; patents on maser, reserpine and sugar esters expired]
F. 661 1977 [Two-hundred and sixty-three grants totaling $1.9 million were approved; Cooperative grants in concert with Crown Zellerbach Corp., Joseph H. DeFrees, Dorothy Fennell Memorial Fund, Hercules Inc., M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Pennwalt Corp., Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Schering-Plough Corp., and Susan Greenwall Foundation]
F. 662 1978 [Two-hundred and six grants approved, totaling $1.7 million; Cooperative grants continue]
F. 663 1979 [Two-hundred and fifty-three grants approved, totaling $2.3 million; Research Corporation had patent licensing agreements with 278 institutions; Cooperative grants continue]
F. 664 1980 [Two-hundred and eighty-four grants approved, totaling $2.9 million; Cooperative grants continue]
F. 665 1981 [Two-hundred and forty-seven grants approved, totaling $2.7 million; Cooperative grants continue]
F. 666 1982 [Two-hundred and sixty-six grants approved, totaling $2.7 million; Cooperative grants continue; John P. Schaefer became president of Research Corporation]
F. 667 1983 [Two-hundred and forty-five grants approved, totaling $2.5 million; Cooperative grants continue; Communications department established]
BOX 53, F. 668-686
F. 668 1984 [Two-hundred and thirty grants approved, totaling $2.4 million; Cooperative grants continue]
F. 669 1985 [Two-hundred and thirty-six grants approved, totaling $2.9 million;
Cooperative grants continue ]
F. 670 1986 [Two-hundred and one grants approved, totaling $2.3 million; Cooperative grants continue; this appears to be the last internal annual report. Also includes “Research Corporation: An Examination of the Operation of Services and Grant-making Activities through Separate Organizations.”]
F. 671 1987 and 1988 [Partial reports]
F. 672 1989 and 1990 [Partial reports]
Manuscripts, Miscellaneous
F. 673 “What the Research Corporation Has Done for Others,” “How the Research Corporation Functions,” “The Origin of the Research Corporation” and two untitled documents, 1920s-1930s
F. 674 Handwritten draft of and correspondence relating to a proposed publication about Research Corporation, written by Elwood Hendrick of Columbia University. Also includes discussion of possible “slogan” for the foundation ] 1928
F. 675 “Grants Made by Research Corporation, 1912-1944,” ca. 1945
F. 676 “Random Notes by Walter A. Schmidt with Reference to Suit Filed by the Department of Justice Against Western, International, Research and Schmidt,” written by Walter A. Schmidt, August 27, 1945
F. 677 “Exploitation of Inventions” by Albert S. Davis Jr., 1949
F. 678 “Inside Doctor Cottrell” and “Further Contribution to the Cottrellian Saga,” both by P.H. Royster, [Includes a letter from Royster, dated May 8, 1951, to Cottrell biographer Frank Cameron], ca. 1950
F. 679 “Notes on the Founding of the Research Corporation,” by Lloyd N. Scott, 1952
F. 680 “Research Corporation: A Story of Invention in Relation to Science” by Robert R. Williams. Unpublished, 1956
F. 681 “Research Corporation” by Charles H. Schauer, Vice President and Secretary, Research Corporation, ca. 1965
F. 682 “Report of the Committee on Goals and Objectives,” adopted at the Research Corporation Board of Directors meeting, June 1979
F. 683a Miscellaneous speeches and manuscripts prepared by Steve Bacon and Ellis Yochelson, ca. 1980s-1990s
F. 683b “Press Book,” manuscripts written in-house during 2007
Record series VI: Press Releases
Press Releases, issued by Research Corporation
F. 684 1945 [“Research Corporation Offers $2,500,000.00 in Grants-In-Aid of Postwar Scientific Research,”] October 9, 1945
F. 685 1971-1979 [Includes news release about Research Corporation granting $5.1 million in grants in 1970, no title, 2/4/1971; News release about inception of Cottrell College Science Grants, no title, 6/7/1971; “Barker Fellowship for 1972 Offered,” 11/8/71; “Academic Research Needs Highlighted by Foundation Report,” 2/1/1972; “National Academy Award to Commemorate Pioneer in Pollution Control,” 3/29/1972; “The Norman Jolliffe Fellowship, 1973-1974,” 4/18/1972; “Discoverer of Photochemical Smog Formation to Receive First Cottrell Award,” 4/21/1972; “1973 Barker Fellowship Offered,” 5/30/1972; “Research Corporation Names Patent Counsel (Robert J. Sanders Jr.),” 9/27/1972; “College Science Study Offers Data for Future Planning,” n.d. “Basic Research Seen as Ultimately Relevant,” 1/29/1973; “Foundation Spurs Basic Research, Use of New Technology,” 1/14/1974; “Foundation Initiates Science Support Program,” 7/22/1975; “John E. Schork Named to Foundation Board,” 2/7/1979]
F. 686 1980-1984 [Includes news release about venture between Northwest Area Foundation and Research Corporation, no title, 1/25/1980; “R. Palmer Baker Named to Research Corporation Board,” 7/21/1980; “CPC International Contributes Plastics Patents to Research Corporation,” 8/12/1980; “Rachel Fuller Brown: Distinguished Woman Scientist, Co-discoverer of First Antifungal Antibiotic,” n.d.; “University of Arizona President [John P. Schaefer] to Head New York Foundation,” 6/22/1981; 982-1983 [Includes “Dr. John P. Schaefer Will Head Up Research Corporation,” 6/24/1982; “Pauline Newman Named to Foundation Board,” 8/19/1982; “New Executive to Press Development of University Inventions,” 9/15/1982; “Research Corporation to Establish Tucson Office,” 9/17/1982); “University President [L. Donald Shields] Elected to Foundation Board,” 2/23/1983; “Agreement Set to License Basic Computer Telesoftware Patent,” 6/27/1983; “Foundation Backs National Clearing House for Advanced Computer Software,” 8/15/1983; “Foundation Offers LSU Crawfish Harvester to Industry,” 12/12/1983; “Research Grants Program Undergoes Staff, Administrative Changes,” 12/15/1983; “Theodore M. Welp Named to Research Corporation Board,” 2/16/1984; “Method Patented for Making Human-Human Hybridomas,” 2/28/1984; “Foundation Introduces Oyster Growth-promoting Bacterium,” 3/14/1984; “Unique Clearinghouse Offers Works by Arizona State Software Authors,” 4/11/1984 (see also Photographs/Subjects/Research Corporation/Research Software); “U.S. Foundation and U.K. Investment Firm Join to Spur European Science and Technology,” 5/29/1984; “Foundation Names New Vice President for Finance,” 7/10/1984; “Agricultural Patent Upheld by U.S. District Court,” 7/1/1984; “New Invention Safeguards Computer Data,” 7/18/1984; “For Snack Food Addicts—‘Fish Chewies’ Are Coming!” 8/22/1984; “Foundation Awards $200,000 for Young Scientists, Research Ideas,” 9/20/1984; “[George]Cunningham Joins Research Corporation Invention Administration Program,” 10/5/1984; “A Sampling of Exciting Microsoftware You Can Order from the Research Corporation /RS Catalogue,” n.d.]
BOX 54, F. 687-738
F. 687 1985-1989 [Includes “Venture Capitalist (Frederick R. Adler) to Help Guide Foundation Programs for Academic Science and Technology,” 1/11/1985; “Research Corporation Sets Record in 1984,” 2/27/1985; “New Telescope Mirror Construction Process Introduced; May Have Industrial Applications,” 6/12/1985; “Engelhard President and CEO (Orin R. Smith) Joins Research Corporation Board,” 7/24/1985; Noted Woman Scientist (Margaret L.A. MacVicar) to Help Guide Foundation,” 7/24/1985; “Helical Oarlock to be Patented,” 8/1/1985; “Hal H. Ramsey, Director of Grants for Research Corporation (obituary notice),” 8/6/1985; “Cast Iron’s ‘Brave New Weld,’” 8/26/1985; “New High Temperature Alloys Developed,” 9/16/1985; “Inventors’ Technique Directly Monitors Drugs in Body Fluids,” 10/23/1985; “Multipurpose Antigen Prevents, Promotes Conception,” (popular and professional versions), n.d.; “Invention May Spur Production of NewDrugs and Chemicals,” 1/17/1986; “Coronary Heart Disease is Target of Promising New Compounds,” 4/3/1986; “Noted Research Scientist Joins Foundation’s Board of Directors,” 4/23/1986; “New Thermal Analysis Technique Licensed for Commercial Development; Measures Chemical and Thermal Reactions at High Temperatures and Pressures,” 7/10/1986; “New Food and Drug Coating Technology Offers Significant Advantages,” 7/31/1986; “Patent Protection Assured for Gallstone Dissolution Technology,” 8/18/1986; “Water-soluble Polymers Offer Variety of Tools for Chemical and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing,” 8/29/1986; “Garden Geranium Goes High-brow and High-tech,” 10/3/1986; “’Flameless’ Helium Torch for Chemical Analysis” and “Torch Uses Helium ‘Fuel’ for Analytical Spectrometry,” 2/21/1987; “Changes and New Directions: Research Corporation Grants Program,” 2/27/1987; “Foundation Supports New Organization to Develop Inventions,” 8/3/1987; “U.S. Foundation Hosts International Conference on Developing New Technology,” 11/25/1987; “Foundation to Award $3 Million for Academic Research in 1988,” 1/6/1988; “Arizona and New Mexico Science Teachers To Do University Research,” 2/2/1988; “Research Partnerships Give High School Science Teachers Opportunity To Do University Research,” 2/2/1988; “Sharing the Thrill of Scientific Discovery: Foundation Stipends Give High School Teachers a Chance at University Research,” 2/11/1988; “California High School Science Teachers To Do College Research,” 5/19/1989; “Arizona High School Science Teachers To Do College Research,” 5/1/1989; “High School Science Teachers Do Cutting-edge Research Under Foundation Program,” 5/19/1989]
F. 688 1990-1994 [Includes “’They’re Not Dumb, They’re Different’ Profiles Students Who Shun Science,” 5/9/1990; “Grants Approved, April 1990,” 6/22/1990; “High School Science Teachers Spend Summer at Laboratory Bench Under Research Corporation’s Partners in Science Program,” 8/2/1990 (nationwide version); “Arizona High School Science Teachers Doing Frontier Research,” 8/1/1990 (Arizona version); “California High School Science Teachers Doing Frontier Research,” 8/1/1990 (California version); $510,000 Award Launches New Program to Bolster Undergraduate Science,” 6/4/1991; “High School Teachers do Advanced Research as ‘Partners in Science’; Program Expands to New States; Candidates Invited to Apply for 1992,” 8/20/1991;”Research Corporation Annual Report Documents ‘The State of Academic Science’ as Seen by Faculty Scientists,” 11/5/1991 (short and long versions); “Global Climate Change the Theme of ‘Partners’ Science Conference,” 1/3/1992; “Frederick Gardner Cottrell Elected to Inventors Hall of Fame” (national, Arizona and California versions), 2/11/1992; “Frederick Gardner Cottrell Inducted Into Inventors Hall of Fame,” 4/21/1992; “Research Corporation Names Vice President,” 5/13/1992; “Foundation Awards Over $2 Million for Research in Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy,” 5/22/1992; “Thirteen States to Feature Teacher Participation in Advanced Summer Research Under Foundation’s Partners in Science Program,” 7/17/1992; “Report on Reforming Science Education: Less Innovation, More Persuasion Needed,” 7/28/1992; “Science Literacy, New Awards Topics of Research Corporation Annual Report,” 12/16/1992; “’Detectives in Science’ is Conference Theme,” 1/8/1993; “Research Corporation Study Spurs National Teleconference,&