Correspondence. Surname, 'Born'

File consists of correspondence with people who have the surname Born, related to the seminar on, "The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 25 November 2003. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 23 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Renolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), The Recent History of Platelets in Thrombosis and Other Disorders, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2005).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Tom Meade), organisers of the meeting (Professor Gustav Born and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Renolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

Detailed information for the seminar, commentary on the transcripts and feedback on the meeting from participants.

Documents supplied by Gustav Born include:

A paper by G.V.R. Born titled, "Update on Platelets: A Personal Story", dated March 2003.

A copy of the obituary of John O'Brien published in The Guardian

, 11 December 2002 and a copy of the "Correction of the Obituary of John O'Brien", published in The Guardian, 9 October 2003.

The chapter, Gustav V.R. Born, "Afterword: Platelets: A Personal Story", taken from, Paolo Gresele, Clive P. Page, Valentin Fuster, and Jos Vermylen, Platelets in Thrombotic and Non-thrombotic Disorders, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Original letters from John Vane and Gwyn Macfarlane, dated 2 May 2001 and 15 September 1985 respectively, regarding the invention of the platelet aggregometer and related matters. The Vane letter is referred to in The Guardian obituary correction mentioned above and in note 12 of the published Witness Seminar volume.

A transcript of the conference, "Cellual Adhesion Applied to Thrombosis and Haemostasis", which took place at Le Mas d'Artigny, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France on 19-21 October 1990. Born was the Chairman for the final day.

A selection of aggregometer pamphlets and photographs from 1968 to 1971 and a reprint of the article, Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Phillip I. Pohl and William R. Wagner, "The Use of Laser-light Scattering and Controlled Shear in Platelet Aggregometry",Thrombosis and Haemostasis, vol.65 no.5, pp601-607, 1991.

1968-2006

1 file

The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

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