Conveners
Session 4: Medical and archaeological archives, organising support for small scientific archives
- Jill Moretto (GSK)
- MARIA PAPANIKOLAOU
This paper takes as its starting a quote from Jeremy Farrar’s book Spike: the virus vs the people (2021): “There was great science…there was science that could have been better…and there was bad science…”. This captures a sense of the extraordinary response of the scientific community to the pandemic through innovation and collaboration on both a national and international scale. Archives also...
Jonas Salk came to Pittsburgh in 1947 where he successfully developed the first vaccine for poliomyelitis. Mass vaccination began in 1955 and he was lauded as a national hero. Peter, Darrell, and Jonathan Salk donated the papers pertaining primarily to his Pittsburgh era research career to the University of Pittsburgh, including records on thousands of Pittsburgh area children who participated...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Archives Advisory Board has been a major force in advocating for our scientific Archives. Inaugurated in 2006 by Mila Pollock, Executive Director of the CSHL Library & Archives, the Board today consists of thirteen members with varied backgrounds such as scientists, Nobel laureates, historians, President of leading Archives, CSHL President and CSHL VP of...
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History recently conducted a two-year project to process and connect the archives and artifacts of archaeologists Ralph and Rose Solecki, who are noted for their work at the sites of Shanidar Cave and Zawi Chemi Shanidar in northern Iraq. Through a collaboration between archivists at the National Anthropological Archives and object...
