Autographs

Autographs

Light collection of scientific letters : a collection of correspondence and memoranda with autographs of renowned scientists [1800- ], compiled and donated by David S. Light, M.D. (alumnus, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1944).

This Collection comprises letters, autographs and portraits of renowned scientists and physicians. Among the autographs in collection: Claude Bernard, Sir William Bowman, Jean Martin Charcot, Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Harvey Williams Cushing, Paul Ehrlich, Sigmund Freud, Herman Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Cornielle Jean Francois Heymans, Johannes Muller, Albert Ludwig Siegmund Neisser, Sir James Paget, Louis Pasteur, Johannes Evangelesta Purkinje, William Ramsay, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Friedrich Tiedmann, JohnTyndall, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, William Henry Welsh.

W.D. Postell, Jr., Director of the Rudolph Matas Library, accepted the donation...March 1993.

Photocopies of originals are filed in binder. Portraits and the original letters and autographs are kept in the History collection.