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Scope and Content Note
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Indexing Terms
Content List
Correspondence
Writings
Courses
Department and University Affairs
Professional Organizations
Research
Speeches and Lectures
Personal
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Sonneborn mss

 
Series: Personal  

 
Scope Note: The personal materials are arranged alphabetically by subject and contain miscellaneous materials, such as biographical materials, calendars, diaries, award certificates and photographs.
Box 56  
Addresses
 
Autobiographical

My Intellectual History in Relation to my Contributions to Science; Self-Portrait of an Academician, written for National Academy of Sciences files

(3 folders)
 
Awards and Honorary Degrees:

American Association for the Advancement of Science prize, 1946; Brown Derby Award, awarded by Sigma Delta Chi, 1971; Frederic Bachman Lieber Award, 1967; Honorary degrees: Indiana University, 1978; Johns Hopkins University, 1957; Northwestern University, 1975; Université de Genève, 1975; University of Munster, Germany (see: Speeches--1979, July 4, Nuclear differentiation); Kimber Genetics Medal, 1959 (see also: Oversize); Mendel Medal of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, 1965

(10 folders)
 
Biographical materials

Mostly biographical sketches written by Sonneborn for various reference sources

(2 folders)
 
Calendars:

1967-1968; 1971-1972; 1973-1974; 1975, Jan.-July; 1977, Oct.-Dec.; 1978, Jan.-June

 
Department of Defense security clearance  

 
Diary:

1921, Feb. 21-1939, Mar. 11; Data diary, 1947-1952; 1949, 1955; 1964-1967; 1970-1975

(7 folders)
Box 57  
Diary:

1976-1977

(2 folders)
 
Indiana University appointment, 1939   

 
Job offers, 1937-1964    (3 folders)
 
Johns Hopkins University, 1922-1939    (2 folders)
 
Library

Including inventory, lists of books given away and disposition of Sonneborn's papers

(5 folders)
 
Memorials to Sonneborn

Includes: typescripts of several memorials and 2 reel-to-reel audio tapes

(4 folders)
 
Photographs

Mostly of Sonneborn and his colleagues

(see also: Oversize 3)

(7 folders)
 
Reprint requests  

Box 58  
Tributes to Sonneborn.

Includes: correspondence, hand-drawn birthday and anniversary cards, poems and tearsheets

(4 folders)
 
Miscellaneous items  

Oversize 3  
Photographs
Oversize 3  
Kimber Genetics Award for 1959 

[certificate]
Oversize 4  
Scrapbooks of photographs, certificates, printed items and clippings: 1933-1975 
Oversize 5  
Scrapbooks of photographs, certificates, printed items and clippings: 1937-1975