Jerrold Meinwald papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-8-4322

Scope and content

The collection contains reprints by Jerrold Meinwald and reprints by Yvonne Meinwald, correspondence, course material, lecture notes, conference material, travel material, grant material, departemental files and symposia. Also, committee files regarding Cambridge NeuroScience research (CNS), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE). Also, a collection of slides used by Meinwald for presentations and lectures. Slides show, text and images including chemical formulas from his research, charts showing results of mass spectrometry research, photographs of insects, plants and various flora and fauna that were investigated for chemical communication. Also photographs of coworkers and travel from places where Meinwald worked including Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad in Costa Rica, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Kenya, and from India. Some images of insects may have been taken by Thomas Eisner.

Dates

circa 1970s-2000s.

Creator

Meinwald, Jerrold, 1927-2018. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Jerrold Meinwald was Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and a 2014 winner of the National Medal of Science. Meinwald's research involved isolation and identification of biologically active compounds from insect and other arthropod sources; pheromone systems of some amphibian and mammal species; and identification of messenger molecules involved in such systems and the understanding of underlying signal transduction pathways. He often collaborated with Thomas Eisner. Together they are regarded as the founders of the field of chemical ecology.