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David Lion Drabkin Papers

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Call Number:
UPT 50 D756
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
3 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1925-1963 (inclusive)
Creator:
Drabkin, David Lion
Form:
Manuscripts for publication and Lecture notes
Abstract:

David Lion Drabkin was born in 1899 in Mohilev, Russia. In 1919, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the City College of New York. In 1924, he was graduated from Cornell University with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1926, he was appointed as an Instructor in Physiological Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In 1930, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physiological Chemistry (later Biochemistry), being promoted to Associate Professor in 1942 and Professor in 1946. In 1946, he became Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry of the Graduate School of Medicine, a position he held until his retirement from the University in 1968.

As a researcher, Drabkin was known for his spectrophotometric investigations of hemoglobin, research of the role of enzymes in metabolism, and knowledge of the applications of photography to biochemical research.

He died in 1981.

These papers include lecture notes while teaching for the Graduate School of Medicine, 1946-1968 and for the Walter Reed Medical Center, 1950. Topics covered are: clinical acidosis, dietetics, malnutrition, the spleen, chemistry of the skin, treatment of protein deficient states, hypoproteinia and edema, re absorption of glucose acidification of urine, metabolism, vitamins, longevity, oxygen homeostasis, vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration, and ketosis. His research notes; correspondence with students, publishers, and friends; design plans for equipment; typescript drafts of manuscripts; and miscellaneous personal reference material as well as instrumentation manuals, operating instructions, and product literature may also be found among his papers.

The Davie Lion Drabkin Papers are organized into six series: Lecture Notes, Student Material, Correspondence, Design Plans for Equipment, Personal Reference Material, and Printed Material. All series are arranged alphabetically.

Transferred from the Center for History of Chemistry, 1985.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
J.M. Duffin under the direction of Karen D. Stevens
Finding Aid Date
1987
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1946-50.
Box 1 Folder 1
1946-56.
Box 1 Folder 2
1947.
Box 1 Folder 3
1947.
Box 1 Folder 4
1947, 59.
Box 1 Folder 5
1947-50.
Box 1 Folder 6
1947-ca.1951.
Box 1 Folder 7
1947-53,1960-61.
Box 1 Folder 8
1947-56.
Box 1 Folder 9
1948.
Box 1 Folder 10
ca.1948.
Box 1 Folder 11
1948,195-.
Box 1 Folder 12
1948, 1955-56.
Box 1 Folder 13
1948-195-.
Box 1 Folder 14
1948-50.
Box 1 Folder 15
1948-ca. 1956.
Box 1 Folder 16
1949-52.
Box 1 Folder 17
1952-ca.1953.
Box 1 Folder 18
ca.1954.
Box 1 Folder 19
1955-56.
Box 1 Folder 20
1955-56.
Box 1 Folder 21
1955-ca.1956.
Box 1 Folder 22
1957.
Box 1 Folder 23
1957.
Box 1 Folder 24
1958.
Box 1 Folder 25
1949.
Box 1 Folder 26
1949, 1954.
Box 1 Folder 27
1950.
Box 1 Folder 28

Graphs, Pvt. B. Dotson, 1951.
Box 1 Folder 29
Notebook,Edwin Gordy, 1949-51.
Box 1 Folder 30
Thesis, Edwin Gordy.
Box 1 Folder 31
Thesis Illustrations, Edwin Gordy.
Box 1 Folder 32

(1).
Box 1 Folder 33
(2).
Box 1 Folder 34
(3).
Box 1 Folder 35
(4).
Box 1 Folder 36
(5).
Box 1 Folder 37
(6).
Box 1 Folder 38
(1).
Box 2 Folder 1
(2).
Box 2 Folder 2
(1), n.d.
Box 2 Folder 3
(2), n.d.
Box 2 Folder 4
(3), n.d.
Box 2 Folder 5
(4), n.d.
Box 2 Folder 6
1934.
Box 2 Folder 7
1937.
Box 2 Folder 8
1951, 52.
Box 2 Folder 9
1952.
Box 2 Folder 10
1955-56.
Box 2 Folder 11
1956.
Box 2 Folder 12

n.d.
Box 2 Folder 13
1949.
Box 2 Folder 14
1955.
Box 2 Folder 15
1956.
Box 2 Folder 16

(1).
Box 2 Folder 19
(2).
Box 2 Folder 20
(3).
Box 2 Folder 21
(4).
Box 2 Folder 22
(5).
Box 2 Folder 23

Instrumentation Manuals, Operating Instructions, Product Literature.
Box 3

Print, Suggest