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Accession 08-119

Shropshire, Walter

Walter Shropshire Papers, 1951-2003

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Shropshire, Walter
Title:Walter Shropshire Papers
Dates:1951-2003
Quantity:4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 08-119
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession documents Walter Shropshire's career as Assistant Director of the Radiation Biology Laboratory (RBL) and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (when RBL merged with the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies), and his research as a biophysicist. Materials include correspondence, photographs and clippings.

Descriptive Entry

This accession documents Walter Shropshire's career as Assistant Director of the Radiation Biology Laboratory (RBL) and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (when RBL merged with the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies), and his research as a biophysicist. Materials include correspondence, photographs and clippings.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 08-119, Walter Shropshire Papers

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Container List

Box 1

Correspondence, 1961-1966

Box 1 of 4

Retirement, 1986

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1968-1969 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1970

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1971

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1972

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1973 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1974 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1975 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 4

Teaching - George Washington University, 1971-1979

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1980-1981 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1981

Box 1 of 4

David L. Correll, 1984

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1984-1986

Box 1 of 4

Correspondence, 1986

Box 1 of 4

Box 2

Correspondence, 1976-1979

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1976-1983

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1975-1981

Box 2 of 4

Shropshire Personal, 1967-1986

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1959-1987

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1983-1984

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1982-1984

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1979-1982

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1976-1979 (3 folders)

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1977-1978

Box 2 of 4

Correspondence, 1977

Box 2 of 4

Radiation Biology Lab (RBL) Guest Book, 1959-1984

Box 2 of 4

Box 3

Photographs & Clippings

Box 3 of 4

Clippings & Photographs, 1965-1979

Box 3 of 4

Research Program - Division of Radiation & Organisms, 1956

Box 3 of 4

National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposal - Blue Photoregulatory Reactions, 1956

Box 3 of 4

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Public Relations, 1951-1986

Box 3 of 4

Photographs (primarily staff working in lab)

Box 3 of 4

Correspondence, 1985-1986 (primarily person/personnel)

Box 3 of 4

Correspondence & Proposals, 1962-1979

Box 3 of 4

Photographs (2 folders)

Box 3 of 4

Photographs & Slides

Box 3 of 4

Photographs

Box 3 of 4

Phototropism (video recording - VHS)

Box 3 of 4

Werner Heisenberg at the Nature of Scientific Discovery (audio recording)

Box 3 of 4

Greenhouse Photographs, 1984

Box 3 of 4

Personnel File, 1959-1983

Box 3 of 4

Personnel Records, 1959-1996

Box 3 of 4

Box 4

NSF Proposal - Growth Equations for Sporiangiophores of Phycomyces, 1988

Box 4 of 4

Correspondence, 1965

Box 4 of 4

American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) & Council, 1984-1989

Box 4 of 4

Shropshire Performance Appraisal, 1984-1988

Box 4 of 4

Correspondence & Publications, 1957-1984

Box 4 of 4

Construction of RBL's Parklawn Building (photographs), 1968

Box 4 of 4

Photographs & Clippings

Box 4 of 4

Correspondence, 1960

Box 4 of 4

Radiation & Organisms Current Reprints

Box 4 of 4

Photomorphogenesis Workshop, 1986

Box 4 of 4

Correspondence & Clippings, 1978-1980

Box 4 of 4

Joys of Research Photographs

Box 4 of 4

International Solar Energy Society (ISES), 1975-2003

Box 4 of 4

Einstein Symposium & ISES

Box 4 of 4

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