Series:
Personal
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
