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Robert Holley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-8-2801

Scope and content

Published technical articles in the field of biochemistry; also, correspondence, and letters of congratulation upon Holley's winning of the Nobel Prize.

Scope and content

Includes a photograph of Holley and colleagues, and correspondence from Science Magazine relative to Holley's submission of his article on RNA.

Scope and content

Two letters from Robert Holley to Jemma Macera about the purchase of a house in Ithaca for a disabled woman who was raising a granddaughter. Holley provided the down payment, with an account by Ms. Macera explaining the context of the letters, 2009.

Dates

  • 1942-1989, 2009.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Cornell University Professor of Biochemistry, Nobel Prize winner in 1968.

Extent

.6 cubic feet. (.6 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
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Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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