The papers document the career of Roland C. Hawes (1908-) who worked in the field of immunnassay, spectrophotometry, scientific apparatus and instruments industry, and administrative duties at Applied Physics Corporation/Cary Instruments. The papers include correspondence, handwritten notes and sketches, memorandum reports, catalogs, printed material, patent documents, drawings, blueprints (original and diazo copies), and photographs.
Scope and Contents:
Correspondence, handwritten notes and sketches, memorandum reports, catalogs, printed material, patent documents, drawings, blueprints (original and diazo copies), and photographs document Hawes's work in the field of immunnassay, spectrophotometry, scientific apparatus and instruments industry, and administrative duties at Applied Physics Corporation/Cary Instruments.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into seven series.
Series 1, Personal files, 1938-1997
Series 2, Research files, A-Z, 1913 (1927-1990)
Series 3, Piness Laboratories, 1920-1979
Series 4, Beckman Instruments, Inc., 1939-1974
Series 5, Cary Instruments, 1937-1992
Series 6, Consulting work, 1908-(1939-1992)
Series 7, Professional activities, 1949-1996
Biographical/Historical note:
The career of Roland C. Hawes, born Oct. 4, 1908, Riverside, California, began in chemical analysis and led him into the scientific apparatus and instruments industry, where he worked in the field of spectrophotometry. B.S., chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 1930. He died in 1999.
Related Archival Materials:
Materials at Other Organizations
Office Of History, National Institutes of Health
Images of Applied Physics Corp. Vibrating Reed Electrometer, Model 31 (89.0001.206); Applied Physics Corp. Cary Vibrating Reed Electrometer, Model 31-V (89.0001.208); and Applied Physics Corp. Cary Recording UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, Model 14 (90.0010.001).
California Institute of Technology Archives
Arnold Orville Beckman: oral history, 1978
Papers of Arnold O. Beckman, 1919-1989
Provenance:
This collection was donated by Roland C. Hawes on September 9, 1997.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Roland C. Hawes Papers, 1908-1997, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Roland C. Hawes Papers, 1908-1997, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
The collection documents Elliott's work in developing the SpectraSpan Spectrometer and related technologies including the use of echelle gratings and argon plasmas with the spectrometer. It also documents his companies, SpectraMetrics, and Elliott Laboratories. The collection contains correspondence; photographs, including lantern slides; business and financial records; writings; laboratory notes; internal company reports; user's manuals; patents and patent-related papers; and publications and printed materials.
Arrangement:
1 series.
Biographical / Historical:
William G. Elliott was an engineer who, in 1966, founded SpectraMetrics, which developed and marketed the SpectraSpan echelle spectrometer. He later sold SpectraMetrics, and founded Elliott Laboratories in 1972.
Provenance:
Collection donated by Mark Elliott.
Restrictions:
Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Cenco; Educational Service Dept.; Cenco Instruments Corp. ; Central Scientific Co. of California (Los Angeles, CA) ; Central Scientific Co. of Canada, Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) ; Refinery Supply Co. (Tulsa, OK) Search this
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Physics, chemistry and general science apparatus and supplies for secondary school and laboratories. Balances and weights; glassware; thermometers and hydrometers; gas and air pollution analysis; hydrogen ion measurement; industrial testing; spectrophotometry and colormetry; refinery supply specialties; bacteriological and clinical; school sciences and agriculture; magnifiers, microscopes, and projectors; physical chemistry; chromatography; physics and electronics instruments and measuring instruments ; tools and raw materials; high vacuum equipment; high vacuum pumps ; constant temperature devices; chemicals. Wireless telegraphy apparatus; rheostats; drying ovens; water stills; ozonator; electro-titration apparatus. Cenco's Manometric Blood Gas Apparatus ; laboratory burners and attachments ; "Photelometer" ; electric incubators ; constant temperature ovens. Issues of "Cenco News Chats." (No. 39, December 1942) ; Evans Equipment (progressive electro-dynamic)for teaching current electricity in schools and colleges ; catalog J-200, J-300; catalog 1975 ; thermo-regulators ; self attaching spigot ; barogroaphs ; thermographs ; tubing ; sillimanite ; laboratory amplifiers ; radio tube testing apparatus ; "Gilley-Gramme Machines" ; "Miller-Cowan Dynamo Electric Machines" ; microwave apparatus
Piscataway, NJ ; founded as Pharmacia Fine Chemicals in 1911; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacia ; see also http://www.pfizer.com/about/timeline.jsp ; http://www.gmi-inc.com/Products/PharmaciaFPLC.htm ; Search this
Pfizer ; Pharmacia Corp. ; Hoefer Pharmacia Biotech Inc. ; Hoefer Scientific Instruments Inc. ; Kabi Pharmacia ; Amersham Pharmacia Biotech ; Amersham Biosciences ; GE Healthcare ; Upjohn ; Pharmacia Diagnostics (now Phadia) ; Pharmacia LKB Biotechnology Search this
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Circa 1980s-1990s catalogs for various divisions of Pharmacia. Pharmacia Biotech: apparatus, instruments and products for nucleic acid amplification and other processes ; "Separations: The International Magazine of Pharmacia Biotech" (issues 9, 10, 11); "BioDirect for Life Sciences Researchers" (March 1995-March/April 1997) ; "Analects for Molecular and Cell Biology" (1994-1996) ; "Science Tools: Results, Reports and Refinements for Life Science Researchers" (1996-1998) ; 1986 and 1994 Pharmacia Biotech products price lists. Pharmacia Fine Chemicals: 1980 price list ; data sheets for Tresyl-activated Sepharose 4B, media for covalent chromatography, high precision pump P-500, valve V-7 and V-8, gradient programmer GP-250, Superloops 10 ml and 50 ml, Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography, UV monitor and CsTFA-Nucleic Acid Centrifugation Medium. Pharmacia Biotechnology Products catalog for 1985, 1986. Biodirectory '97 (including Hoefer products). Wallac System 1400 Liquid Scintillation Counters. Th M13 Cloning/sequencing System. Data file for the Unicorn Multi Purpose Control BioProcess and BioPilot systems. Report on the BIA symposium 1991 held in Paris on 27-28 June 1991. Pharmacia Laboratory Separation Division: hydrophobic interaction chromatography and Alkyl-Superose ; FPLC Reference list (2nd edn.), data and application files for various product lines (ie. monobeads and DNA restriction fragments, gel media); PhastSystem, a new class of electrophoresis system . Pharmacia LKB Biotechnology: standard chromatogphaphy columns, gel filtration media, chromatography price list 1989, ultrafiltration price list 1989 ; System One specialist system for bioanalytical HPLC ; LC Gradient pump for routine gradient separations ; ExcelGel ; Electrophoresis Price List 1990 ; Affinity chromatography media ; data and technique sheets about the PhastSystem ; restriction enzymes ; Diode Array Detection in HPLC ; Variable Wavelength Monitor for high performance liquid chromography (HPLC) ; catalogs of HPLC products ; Pharmacia LKB Ultrafiltration Products Catalog ; PTC Amino Acid Analysis application file. Press kit for the Gene Assembler Plus for DNA synthesis ; Electrophoresis products price list 1988 ; UV/Vis Spectrophotometry price list 1989 ; Ultrospec Plus ; a guide called "HPLC for biomolecular separation ; and Vol. 2/No. 1 of Imprimis: The newsletter of PhastSystem innovation and information ; PhastSystem PCR*-SSCP Analysis ; HiTrap ; "Separations" magazine ; Percoll reference list ; Percoll methodology and applications ; DNA Synthesis : price list, PAC amidites, gene assembler plus ; Protein G ; EAH and ECH Sepharose ; Protein A Sepharose ; Protein G Superose ; Chelating Superose ; Q and S Sepharose ; Sephacryl ; Ion exchange product profile ; gel filtration media product profile ; Noveblot system ; ExcelGel ; Power supplies ; centrasette system ; affinity chromatography media ; ultrafiltration and microfiltration ; minisette system ; standard chromatography columns ; ultrafiltration price list 1989 ; molecular biology catalog 1989 ; chromatography price list 1989 ; vacugene blotting system ; spuerpac HPLC cartridge ; HPLC for biomolecule separation ; products for cell science ; cDNA ; protein purifier ; percoll and density marker beads ; biopilot system
Includes:
Trade catalog, price lists, manual and histories
Black and white images
Color images
Physical description:
200 pieces; 3 boxes
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Uppsala, Sweden
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Biotechnology and biochemical equipment and supplies Search this
Fabricant, Daniel G., Kurtz, Michael J., Geller, Margaret J., Caldwell, Nelson, Woods, Deborah, and Dell'Antonio, Ian. 2008. "Spectrophotometry with Hectospec, the MMT's Fiber-Fed Spectrograph." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 120 1222–1232.
Wilson, P. A., Colón, K. D., Sing, D. K., Ballester, G. E., Désert, J. -M, Ehrenreich, D., Ford, E. B., Fortney, J. J., Lecavelier des Etangs, A., López-Morales, Mercedes, Morley, C. V., Pettitt, A. R., Pont, F., and Vidal-Madjar, A. 2014. "A search for methane in the atmosphere of GJ 1214b via GTC narrow-band transmission spectrophotometry." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438 2395–2405. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2356.
Standardization in Spectrophotometry and luminescence measurements : proceedings of a workshop seminar held at the National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November, November 19-20, 1975 / edited by K. D. Mielenz, R. A. Velapoldi, and R. Mavrodineanu
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Workshop Seminar on Standardization in Spectrophotometry and Luminescence Measurements (1975 : National Bureau of Standards) Search this
