| Title |
Visits and Conferences |
| Reference |
GCPP Needham 5
(former reference: E) |
| Creator |
Needham, Dorothy |
| Covering Dates |
1944–1981 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 box; Paper |
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| Content and context |
This section includes a series of travel diaries, 1944-77, recording visits abroad made by Dorothy Needham together with Joseph Needham; also correspondence and papers relating to papers given at conferences and symposia. There is some overlap with papers in GCPP Needham 4/2 (Lectures). The section is arranged broadly chronologically. |
| Girton/GCPP Needham 5 contains: |
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Travel Diaries.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
25 items; Paper. |
1944–1977 |
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Holland lecture. Letter to Dorothy Needham, 25 March 1948, re her forthcoming visit to Holland in April 1948; also poster re her lecture on 'Recent advances in biochemistry of muscle' to the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Biochemie, Amsterdam, 21 April.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1948 |
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Invitations. 1) Invitation to Dorothy Needham to talk at a Nutrition Society meeting on The Nutrition of Athletes, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 17 July 1948;. 2) Invitation to luncheon prior to Royal Society meeting on Muscular Contraction and Relaxation: their physical and chemical basis, 7 July 1949.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1948–1949 |
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4
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Hungarian Physiological Society 20th Conference, Budapest, July 1954. 1) Typescript draft of Dorothy Needham's contribution to the conference [on 'Some preliminary observations on the protein fractions of the uterus, and on the ATPase activity of this organ'];. 2) Notebook used by D N for notes on the conference.
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 file; Paper. |
1954 |
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5
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Mittelrheinische Gesellschaft für Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie 117th meeting, Mainz, 22-24 July 1955. Correspondence re arrangements, programme, and summary (in German) of Dorothy Needham's contribution. [D N spoke at the symposium on contractile proteins of the uterus - 'Die Zusammensetzung der Proteine und die Adenosintriphosphatase Aktivität in der Uterus-Muskulatur normaler overektomierter und schwangerer Tiere'.].
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 file; Paper. |
1955 |
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6
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Invitations. Invitation to Dorothy Needham to visit University of California Medical Center during a visit to the USA November 1961; also invitation to International Symposium on the arterial wall, Brussels, 22-24 May 1962.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1961–1962 |
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Invitations. Invitation to Dorothy Needham to a symposium on the mechanism of labour, Würzburg, 31 May - 2 June 1964; also invitation to a symposium on muscle, Budapest, September 1966.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1964 |
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British Biophysical Society meeting on Muscular Contraction, University College London, 18-20 December, 1967. Abstracts.
Creator: British Biophysical Society.
1 file; Paper. |
1967 |
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9
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2nd International Symposium on Angiology, Fribourg, Switzerland, 21-22 June 1968. Correspondence between Prof L Laszt and Dorothy Needham (some in French) and annotated programme (in French) [Dorothy Needham chaired two sessions on proteins at this symposium].
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1968 |
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10
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Invitations. Invitation to Dorothy Needham to a meeting on molecular biology and ultrastructure in the systematics of the higher group, Cambridge, 24-26 March 1969; also invitation to a conference on the history of biochemistry and molecular biology, Brookline, Massachusetts, 21-23 May 1970.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1969–1970 |
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British Biophysical Society meeting on Conformation of Polypeptides and Fibrous Proteins, Leeds University, 6-8 April 1971. Notice; provisional programme; abstracts.
Creator: British Biophysical Society.
1 file; Paper. |
1971 |
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12
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Fourth International Biophysics Congress, Moscow, 7-14 August 1972. Programme only (in Russian).
Creator: International Biophysics Congress.
1 item; Paper; Cyrillic. |
1972 |
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13
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Visit to Canada November-December 1972. Correspondence re arrangements [Dorothy Needham gave seminars on 'Muscle contraction: From the Greeks to the sliding mechanism' at the University of Guelph (see also GCPP Needham 4/2/10), and on biochemistry of muscle at the University of Toronto.].
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 file; Paper. |
1972 |
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Conference invitations and programmes. 1) Correspondence re invitation to Dorothy Needham to give a paper at a conference on the history of bioenergetics, Brookline, Massachusetts, 11-13 October 1973;. 2) University of Cambridge meeting on 'Of timeliness and promise - sterile and fruitful approaches in the development of biochemistry', 4 December 1978 (annotated programme only).
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1973–1978 |
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Visit to Cyprus May-June 1979. Itineraries; together with Dorothy Needham's manuscript journal for 21-31 May. [Dorothy and Joseph Needham visited Cyprus under the auspices of the British Council.].
Creator: Needham, Dorothy.
1 file; Paper. |
1979 |
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Annotated memorabilia from Joseph Needham's visit to Rumania 1981.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1981 |
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