Kenneth V. Thimann Papers

http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5q2nb4fk No online items Guide to the Kenneth V. Thimann papers Kate Dundon University of California, Santa Cruz 2015 1156 High Street Santa Cruz 95064 [email protected] URL: http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/speccoll Guide to the Kenneth V. Thimann MS.071 1 papers Contributing Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz Title: Kenneth V. Thimann papers Creator: Thimann, Kenneth Vivian, 1904-1997 Identifier/Call Number: MS.071 Physical Description: 78.4 Linear Feet162 boxes (141 doc boxes/half cartons, 17 flats/photo boxes, 2 roll boxes, 2 cartons) Date (inclusive): 1839, 1921-1997 Date (bulk): 1940-1990 Language of Material: The majority of the collection is in English, but some materials are written in German, French, and Czech. Access Collection open for research. Audiovisual media is unavailable until reformatted. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access to audiovisual media. Publication Rights Property rights for this collection reside with the University of California. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. The publication or use of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use for research or educational purposes requires written permission from the copyright owner. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user. Preferred Citation Kenneth V. Thimann Papers, MS 71, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. Acquisition Information Gift of the Thimann family in 1997. Biographical Narrative Kenneth V. Thimann was an English-born American plant physiologist who is best known for his isolation of the plant growth hormone auxin. His identification of this hormone allowed for the production of several herbicides that were of critical importance to agricultural and horticultural industries. Thimann wrote or coauthored over 300 articles and several books, including Phytohormones (1937); The Life of Bacteria (1955); Hormone Action in the Whole Life of Plants (1977); and Botany: Plant Biology and Its Relation to Human Affairs (1982). Thimann was born in Ashford, England, on August 5, 1904 to Muriel Kate Harding and Israel Phoebus Thimann. He earned his B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1924 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1928, both from Imperial College, University of London. He married Ann Mary Bateman in 1929, with whom he had three children. He became an American citizen in 1941. Thimann taught at the University of London for several years before coming to the California Institute of Technology in 1930, where he was an instructor in bacteriology and biochemistry. In 1935, Thimann joined the faculty of Harvard University, where he remained for 30 years. He served as the director of Harvard's Biological Laboratories from 1946-1950, and was the Higgins Professor of Biology from 1962-1965. In 1962, he became the first master of East House at Radcliffe College. In 1965, Thimann moved to California, and became professor of biology and the first provost of Crown College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He retired as provost in 1972, and moved to Haverford, Pennsylvania in 1989. Thimann was a technical consultant to the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development from 1942-1945. During this time, he also worked with the Operational Research Group of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C., London, and Pearl Harbor. Thimann served on numerous international scientific societies, associations, and editorial boards throughout his career. He was President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (1965), the Botanical Society of America (1960), the American Society of Plant Physiologists (1950), the Society for the Study of Development and Growth (1955), the Society of General Physiologists (1949-1950), the American Society of Naturalists (1955), and the XIth International Botanical Congress (1969). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1938, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1948, the American Philosophical Society in 1959, as well as several international academies. He was awarded the Balzan Prize in 1982. He died in 1997 in Haverford, Pennsylvania. For more biographical information see the oral history, Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Crown College , available in UCSC Library Search and eScholarship. Scope and Content of collection This collection documents the career of Kenneth V. Thimann, particularly his extensive publishing activity and professional involvement in the scientific community. The largest portion of the collection comprises alphabetical subject files that reflect his activity within national and international scientific organizations during the 1950s-1970s, such as the National Guide to the Kenneth V. Thimann MS.071 2 papers Academy of Sciences. Materials in the collection also document Thimann's editorial work for a number of journals, his laboratory research at the California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of California Santa Cruz, as well as his role as provost of Crown College at UCSC. A small amount of personal and biographical material is also included. Processing Information Unless otherwise noted, materials are arranged in original order. Most folder titles are copied from the original folder label. Related Archival Materials Harvard University Archives also maintains a collection of Thimann's papers, Papers of Kenneth V. Thimann, 1929-1988. Subjects and Indexing Terms Plant physiology Botanists -- United States -- Archives Thimann, Kenneth Vivian, 1904-1997 Box 1-38 Writings, manuscripts, editorial work 1926-1996 Scope and Content This series contains reprints of Thimann's writings and publication files containing manuscripts, notes, figures, illustrations, and correspondence related to his articles, books, and other publications. Also included are manuscripts of others' writings and related correspondence that document Thimann's editorial role in a variety of journals and professional organizations, such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Processing information Some publication titles are abbreviated. Box 1-10 Reprints of writings by Thimann 1926-1989 Scope and Content Includes reprints of Thimann's writings, and a small amount of correspondence, article drafts, figures, photographs, and notes relating to specific publications. Box 1-3 Collected papers 1926-1988 Container Summary: 5 bound volumes Scope and Content Includes published journal articles by Thimann bound together into volumes. Box 3-7 Chronological reprint files 1934-1989 Container Summary: 42 folders Box 7 The Effect of Electric Currents Upon Gelatin 1927 Historical note Thimann's Ph.D. dissertation for Imperial College, University of London. Box 7 Investigations on Gelatin 1927 Box 7 The Effects of Salts on Ionisation of Gelatin 1930 Box 7 Chemical Change in Gelatin... 1930 Box 7 Studies on the Excystment of Colpoda Cucullus 1934 Box 7 Chemical Nature of The Root-Forming Hormone of Plants 1935 Box 7 Effects of Salts on Emergence from the Cyst in Protozoa 1937 Box 7 The Metabolism of the Water-Mold, Leptomitus Lacteus 1940 Box 7 Review: Lectures on the Inorganic Nutrition of Plants Hoagland circa 1946 Box 7 The Chemical Control of Conjugation in Zygosaccharomyces 1943 Box 7 Crop Production and Environment 1946 Guide to the Kenneth V. Thimann MS.071 3 papers Writings, manuscripts, editorial work 1926-1996 Reprints of writings by Thimann 1926-1989 Box 7 Review: Spuren von Stoffen... Abderhalden 1946 Box 7 Review: Annual Review of Microbiology 1947-1948 Box 7 Foreword: Vernalization and Photoperiodism 1948 Box 7 Use of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Herbicides... 1948 Box 7 Studies of Development in Long Shoots and Short Shoots of Ginkgo Biloba 1949 Box 7 The Biogenesis of the Anthocyanins 1949 Box 7 The Effect of Onion Juice on the Growth Response to Auxin 1949 Box 7 Dedication of the Earhart Plant Research Laboratory... 1949 Box 7 Application of Herbicides to Cut Stumps... 1949 Box 7 Vernalisation und Photoperiodismus 1949 Box 7 Metabolism of Stem Tissue During Growth and Its Inhibition 1950 Box 7 Brush Control in Cuba 1950 Box 7 Translocation of 2,4,5-T in Cuban Marabu 1953 Box 7 Conference on Fungicides 1953 Box 7 The Nature of Auxin-Induced Water Uptake... 1953 Box 7 Studies on the Growth and Inhibition of Isolated Plant Parts 1954 Box 7 Dehydrogenase Activity and Respiration 1954 Box 7 Plant Physiology at the International Botanical Congress 1955 Box 7 The Biochemistry of Growth and Inhibition in Isolated Plant Parts 1950 Box 7 Correlations of Growth by Humoral Influences 1954 Box 7 Interference in Salkowski Assay of Indoleacetic Acid 1956 Box 7 Solar Energy Utilization by Higher Plants 1955 Box 8 On the Uptake of Carbon Dioxide and Bicarbonate... 1957 Box 8 The Biological Action of Growth Substances 1958 Box 8 Effect of Light on the CO2 Absorption and Evolution... 1958 Box 8 Evolution of the Phytotron 1958 Box 8 Beneficiation of Soils Contaminated by Strontium-90 1959 Box 8 Review: Methoden zur Bestimmung... 1959 Box 8 Experiments on the Physiology of Apical Dominance 1957 Box 8 Plastids of the Avena Coleoptile 1960 Box 8 Phototropism; Nature of Photoreceptor... 1961 Box 8 How the Other Half Lives: General and Botanical Observations on the USSR... 1961 Box 8 Correlative Aspects 1961 Box 8 The Effects of Auxins and Kinetin on Xylem... 1962 Box 8 Some Characteristics of Movement of Indoleacetic Acid in Coleoptiles of Avena 1962 Box 8 Activity of Gibberellin 'D' on the Germination of Photosensitive Lettuce Seeds 1963 Box 8 Formation of Anthocyanin in Leaves of Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana 1963 Box 8 Effect of Light on Uptake and Transport of Indoleacetic Acid... 1963 Box 8 Biogenesis of Anthocyanins 1963 Box 8 Biological Utilization of Solar Energy 1951 Box 8-9 Miscellaneous reprints 1935-1995 Container Summary: 9 folders Box 9 Miscellaneous reprints (late publications) 1989-1994 Box 9 Miscellaneous reprints (senescence and related) 1974-1989 Box 10 Reprint requests Box 10 Reprint lists 1950-1986 Scope and Content Includes lists of Thimann's publications.

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