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TitleGeneral scientific and professional correspondence file of Douglas Robert Wilkie for the year 1963
CreatorWilkie; Douglas Robert (1922 - 1998); physiologist
Date1963
DescriptionFile of letters received and sent by Wilkie, including:

Three letters exchanged between Wilkie and Dr. Alexander Sandow, Institute of Muscle Disease, New York, concerning Wilkie's awkward position between A. V. and Spike Carlson, as a result of the latter's paper on the interpretation of the shortening heat, at the Biophysical Society meeting, dating 26 February 1963; 19 March 1963; 26 April 1963.

Four letters exchanged between Wilkie and Lord Nathaniel Mayer (Victor) Rothschild in relation to Rotschild's investigations of the non-random distribution of bull spermatozoa in a drop of sperm suspension, dating 19 February 1963; 5 March 1963.

Three letters from Brian, Department of Zoology, University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford, one pertaining to Brian's paper and criticisms he received, dated 17 September 1963; the second on the properties of Arldite cement, dated25 September 1963; and the third relating to Wilkie's TV film, an interesting lecture 'The influence of engineering techniques on biological thought, with particular reference to analogue and conceptual models' due to be delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, and an amusing anti-UCL story circulation at the Oxford meeting, dated 14 October 1963.

Two letters between Wilkie and Professor Otto Krayer, Department of Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, in relation to John Blinks, dated 6 November and 10 December 1963.

Four letters between Wilkie and Irwin W. Sizer, Head, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in relation to the work of Lawrence Stark, dated 25 September 1963, 5 November 1963, and 12 November 1963.

Two letters between Wilkie and Dr. James C. Duffield, Department of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, The School of Medicine, Univeristy of Pennsylvania, regarding heat measurements and ergonometers, dated 22 May 1963 and 17 June 1963.

One letter from Spike Carlson seeking information as he has made arrangements for having all kinds of multiple correlation analysis run by the University Computing Service. Requests information pertaining to the amount of energy dissipated in the muscle by the electrical stimulus that he and Wilkie delivered in their experiments.

One letter to Wilkie from H. C. MicHigan, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge, attaching a paper on "The effect of metabolic inhibitors", dated 3 July 1963.

One letter to Douglas, June, and Andrew Wilkie from Archibald Vivian Hill, 16 Bishopwood Road, N6, sending thanks for thier greetings; thanking Wilkie for sending reprints; and informing he is tyring night-store heating, intrigued by heat flow, mentioning thermal conductivity, dated 26 December 1963.
Extent1 File; 29p
FormatTypescript
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionCarbon
Ink on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA4874Wilkie; Douglas Robert (1922 - 1998); physiologist1922 - 1998
NA8239Hill; Archibald Vivian (1886 - 1977); physiologist1886 - 1977
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