Glenn Allan Millikan Biographical File
Abstract
Biographical file includes photographs, negatives, meeting notes, obituaries, memorial service booklet, academic journal articles, newspaper articles, and correspondence.
Dates
- Creation: 1947 - 2001
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Historical or Biographical Note
Glenn A. Millikan joined the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine faculty to head the Department of Physiology in 1946. He was educated in Chicago, at Harvard University, at several German universities, and at Cambridge University, England. Before assuming duties at Vanderbilt, he had taught and lectured at Cambridge, Cornell University School of Medicine, and the Johnson Foundation of Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research included war research on high altitude flying and studies of the metabolism of living muscle cells.
Full Extent
0.01 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Glenn Allan Millikan (1906-1947) biographical file
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by EBL Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2010-06-25
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is inEnglish.
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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