Harvey Society Lectures

The Harvey Society was founded on April 1, 1905, by New York scientists and physicians who met at the home of physiologist Graham Lusk. The group included Samuel J Meltzer, William H Park, Edward K Dunham, James Ewing, Frederick S Lee, Christian Herter, Simon Flexner, George B Wallace, Theodore C. Janeway, Phoebus A. Levene, and Eugene L Opie.

The stated purpose of the society was to forge a "closer relationship between the purely practical side of medicine and the results of laboratory investigation."

Since its founding, the Harvey Society has sponsored an annual series of lectures given by leading biomedical researchers, including more than sixty scientists from The Rockefeller University. The lectures reflect "the evolution of physiology and physiological chemistry into biochemistry and the development of molecular biology from the roots of bacteriology and biochemistry.”

Presented here are Harvey Society Lectures delivered by Rockefeller University faculty.

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Alfred Mirsky, 1950

The Rockefeller University

Alfred E. Mirsky. The chemical composition of chromosomes

Lecture delivered December 21, 1950

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Layman Craig, 1949

The Rockefeller University

Lyman C. Craig. Isolation and characterization of biologically important substances

Lecture delivered December 15, 1949

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Albert Claude, 1948

The Rockefeller University

Albert Claude. Studies on cells: morphology, chemical constitution, and distributions of biochemical functions.

Lecture delivered January 15th, 1948
Fritz Lipmann, 1948

The Rockefeller University

Fritz Lipmann. Biosynthetic mechanisms

Lecture delivered December 16, 1948

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Sam Granick, 1949

The Rockefeller University

Sam Granick. The structural and functional relationships between heme and chlorophyll

Lecture delivered May 19, 1949

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Rafael Lorente de No, 1946

The Rockefeller University

Rafael Lorente de Nó. Correlation of Nerve Activity with Polarization Phenomena

Lecture delivered October 24th, 1946

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Wayne Woolley, 1946

The Rockefeller University

D. W. Woolley. Biological Antagonisms Between Metabolically Important Compounds and Their Structural Analogs

Lecture delivered March 21st, 1946

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Keffer Hartline, 1941

The Rockefeller University

H.K. Hartline. The Neural Mechanisms of Vision

Lecture delivered October 30, 1941

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Philip McMaster, 1942

The Rockefeller University

Philip D. McMaster. Lymphatic participation in cutaneous phenomena

Lecture delivered April 16, 1942

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William C. Stadie, 1942

The Rockefeller University

William C. Stadie. Intermediary Metabolism in Diabetes Mellitus

Lecture delivered January 15th, 1942

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Rebecca C. Lancefield, 1941

The Rockefeller University

Rebecca C. Lancefield. Specific Relationship of Cell Composition to Biological Activity of Hemolytic Streptococci

Lecture delivered May 15th, 1941

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René J. Dubos, 1940

The Rockefeller University

René J. Dubos. Utilization of Selective Microbial Agents in the Study of Biological Problems

Lecture delivered March 21, 1940

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