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Hanson, Emmeline Jean, 1919-1973.
Emmeline J. Hanson papers and correspondence, 1919-1973.
The papers include a full range of notes on lectures attended by Hanson as an undergraduate, and of her own drafts for lectures, carefully revised each year, which provides a record of undergraduate teaching in zoology at Bedford College, 1938-1948. There is also the course of lectures in biophysics which she gave at King's College, 1960-1973. Hanson's research is represented by extensive laboratory notebooks and working papers, 1938-1973, which include ideas for research and comments on current and projected experiments as well as records and observations of works in progress. There are reports on the work of the Muscle Biophysics Unit, drafts for publications and unpublished invitation lectures and talks, and scientific correspondence. When Hanson or her principal colleagues were abroad on conferences, or visiting fellow-scientists and their laboratories, they exchanged frequent and extensive letters. A detailed picture can thus be formed of her own research and general progress in the field, and also of the scientists involved both in her laboratory and elsewhere.
B.Sc., First Class Honors in Zoology, Bedford College, London, 1941; Research worker and teaching assistant, Bedford College, 1941-1944; Demonstrator in Zoology, Bedford College, 1944-1948; Biophysics Research Unit, King's College, London, 1948-1973; Rockefeller Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953-1954; Professor of Biology, King's College London, 1967; Director, Muscle Biophysics Research Unit, King's College, London, 1970-1973. Hanson's research was concerned with the structural basis of muscular contraction. Her most important investigations began during her Rockefeller Fellowship at MIT. It was here, in F.O. Schmitt's laboratory, that she began her collaboration with H. E. Huxley which led to the formulation and testing of the sliding filament hypothesis of muscular contraction. She was elected FRS in 1967.
Hanson, Emmeline Jean, 1919-1973.
Bedford College -- Faculty.
Bedford College -- Study and teaching.
King's College (University of London).
Biophysics
Women scientists.
Zoology.
Women in science
Drafts (documents). ftamc aat
Laboratory notes. ftamc aat aat
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King's College (University of London). Muscle Biophysics Research Unit.
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King's College. King's College Archives. Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK England
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