| RefNo | DRW/2/2/28 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Scientific correspondence between Douglas Robert Wilkie and Brian R. Jewell |
| Creator | Wilkie; Douglas Robert (1922 - 1998); physiologist |
| Date | 1962-1981 |
| Description | File of letters between Wilkie and Professor Brian R. Jewell, Head of the Department of the School of Medicine and of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds. Includes Jewell discussing the papers read during the Federation Meetings in Atlantic city; updates on his experience of the Biophysical Society meeting in Pittsburgh; Jewell seeking assistance on behalf of Mark Hibberd; supplying Wilkie with slides of Archibald Vivian Hill FRS; and letters relating to Jewell's myoesthetic epic poem "Ode to Muscle".
Also includes two reprints of Jewell's papers "A Re-examination of the Influence of Muscle Length on Myocardial Performance", published in Circulation Research, and "Concluding Remarks", published in the European Journal of Cardiology; invitations to lectures; details of a symposium on "Current Concepts of Cardiac Mechanics"; a photographic print of a graph depicting R. pipiens sartorius muscle, stimulated at 20 pulses per second; short summaries of methods implemented in the following scientific investigations: "Internal work during maintained tension of isometric tetanus", by R. E. Larson, M. J. Kushmerick, D. H. Haynes, and R. E. Davies; "The mode of self-regulation in muscle", by S. Roy Caplan; and "Electrical properties of skeletal muscle fibres with disrupted transverse tubules", by R. S. Eisenberg & P. W. Gage. |
| Extent | 1 File; 25p; 2 reprints |
| Format | Typescript |
| PhysicalDescription | Carbon |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8239 | Hill; Archibald Vivian (1886 - 1977); physiologist | 1886 - 1977 |
| NA4874 | Wilkie; Douglas Robert (1922 - 1998); physiologist | 1922 - 1998 |