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Chance, Britton
Britton Chance papers, 1940-1995.
The Britton Chance papers document his lifelong career at the University of Pennsylvania as an educator and administrator of the Department of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry and the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation from the 1940s to the 1990s. The papers fall into these major categories: an administrative file; a correspondence file; research files which include a collection of dissertations and theses; miscellaneous administrative records of the Johnson Foundation and the Department of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry; a personnel file; and miscellaneous files that document administrative and advisory responsibilies of Britton Chance in relation to the various committees he served on.
(1913-2010); biophysicist and physical biochemist; Ph.D. in physical chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) (1940) for his work in the measurement of the reaction kinetics of an enzyme-substrate compound named peroxidase; during World War II worked at the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT); in 1949, he was promoted to professor of Biophysics at UPenn and appointed director of the Johnson Foundation, a position he held until 1983.
Chance, Britton
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics -- Administration.
University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics -- History.
University of Pennsylvania. Johnson Foundation.
University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine -- Administration.
Biochemistry.
Biophysics
AIP-ICOS
University of Pennsylvania. University Archives and Records Center Philadelphia, PA 19104-6320, USA
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