Finding Aid to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Life Sciences Division research logbooks of Patricia Durbin, 1941-1969

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Historical Note

The laboratory was founded as the University of California Radiation Laboratory in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a University of California Berkeley physicist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator that opened the door to high-energy physics. It is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory, operated by the University of California. The name of the laboratory has evolved since its founding: Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (1931-1958), the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1959-1995), and currently the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1995-present).

Patricia Durbin (Ph.D., biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, 1953) was a member of the research team of Dr. Joseph Hamilton at Crocker Laboratory, a predecessor of parts of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), then at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (LRL) from 1946-1954, research fellow from 1954-1956, lecturer from 1957-1959, and a physiologist from 1951-1977.

Scope and Contents of Collection

These records document the research of Patricia Durbin's group in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology of the Life Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). The logbooks include data, notes, daily reports, graphs and charts relating to various experiments. Included are the effect of a complexing agent and mode of administration on the distribution of Curium-242 in the rat, the metabolism of Americium-241 in the adult female rat and monkey, the growth and senescence of the female Sprague-Dawley rat, and the tracing of natural levels of strontium and other elements in baby food and milk. Research focuses on radiation exposures and the effects on biological systems.

Access to Collection

This collection requires permission for access. Please contact the repository for more information, via email at sanbruno.archives@nara.gov.

Container List

Series I: Research logbooks of Patricia Durbin
Box 1	Folder 1	L.W. Tuttle, December 1946-March 1947
	Folder 2	L.W. Tuttle, biology metabolism of Su in rats, August 1947-February 1948
	Folder 3	Helen Goodwin, 1948
	Folder 4	F.C. Henriques Jr., July 1946-February 1947
	Folder 5	H.R. Haymond, 1949
	Folder 6	K. Scott, 1947-1948
	Folder 7	Method for analysis of calcium, Larson & Greenburg, 1947-1948
	Folder 8	Edith Stumhauff, September 7, 1947
	Folder 9	Helen Haydon data, 1948-1949
	Folder 10	Gudrun Brown, undated
	Folder 11	A.J. Barber, 101 Crocker, undated
	Folder 12	Decay curves, March 8, 1950-Febrary 13, 1951
	Folder 13	Mozley, August 3, 1949-February 23, 1950
	Folder 14	Mass absorption curves, 1950-1951
	Folder 15	Counter tubes decay curve data, December 22, 1948-August 2, 1949
	Folder 16	DK curves, 1949
	Folder 17	Mass Absorption, 1951-1954
	Folder 18	Mozley, March 3, 1948-December 17, 1948
	Folder 19	Mozley, undated
	Folder 20	Mass Absorption Curves, Jamie Mozley, 1949-1950
	Folder 21	H.R. Haymond Laboratory Separations, undated
	Folder 22	K.H. Larson Chemical Analysis "Crossroads", undated
	Folder 23	Radio Purifications, Larson, 1947
	Folder 24	Phosphorus preparations, 1941-1943
	Folder 25	HR Haymond, Crocker Laboratory, 1951
	Folder 26	Jack Alley, Crocker Laboratory (Garrison's notes in back), 1947
	Folder 27	Visitor record, Crocker Laboratory, June 1953-February 1956
	Folder 28	Visitor record, Crocker Laboratory, January 1951-May 1953
Box 2	Folder 1	Joan Larson, Book IV, 1960-1961
	Folder 2	Sylvia Murray (Jean Burg's baby experiment incorporated in this book), 1960-1963
	Folder 3	Book III, Baby Experiment (Jean Burg) & Book III, Monkey Excreta (Jean Burg), 1960-1961
	Folder 4	Sample log baby experiments, undated
	Folder 5	M. Williams baby experiment, 1969
	Folder 6	X-Ray fluorescent sample standards, undated
	Folder 7	X-Ray fluorescent counter baby experiments 1, 1962
	Folder 8	X-Ray fluorescent samples, undated
	Folder 9	Jean Burg's notes, undated
	Folder 10	Parrott, September 2, 1954-May 2, 1962
	Folder 11	Parrott M.W., March 5, 1952-September 2, 1954
	Folder 12	Osteogenic sarcoma log, 1957-1959
	Folder 13	Transplantable osteogenic sarcoma log, July 30, 1956-February 8, 1957
	Folder 14	E. Hessel Book I, osteogenic sarcoma, 1957
	Folder 15	Hessel, Crocker Laboratory, Book 59-1, 1958-1959
	Folder 16	Hessel, Crocker Laboratory, Book 59-2, 1959
	Folder 17	Richard Watts, metabolic rate experiments, August 10, 1954
	Folder 18	Richard Watts, radiotoxicity studies, 1955
	Folder 19	R. Watts, metabolic rate determiniations, 1954-1955
	Folder 20	R. Watts, role of the salivary glands in iodine metabolism, 1955
	Folder 21	Peggy O'Donnell, tissues, 1959
	Folder 22	Peggy O'Donnell, 1960
	Folder 23	Micki, 1963-1964
	Folder 24	Jean Burg I, undated
	Folder 25	Jean Burg II, monkey feeding experiments and analysis of samples, 1595-1960
	Folder 26	Diapers, milk and food, 1961-1963
Box 3	Folder 1	Sylvia Murray, Book I (monkey food), 1961-1963
	Folder 2	S. Murray, procedures, 1961-1963
	Folder 3	Joan Larson IV, 1960
	Folder 4	Joan Larson, Book II, 1959-1960
	Folder 5	Joan L., Book I, 1959
	Folder 6	G. Barr, Crocker Laboratory, Book I, 1954
	Folder 7	George Barr, Crocker Laboratory, Book I, 1957
	Folder 8	G. Barr, Book II, 1957-1958
	Folder 9	Index card tray - names, addresses, phone numbers of former employees, 1942-1960