Visits and conferences

Title

Visits and conferences

Shelfmark

MS. Abraham 139/F.1-F.10

Summary

F.1: 3ème Congrès International de Biochimie, Brussels, Belgium, 1-6 August 1955. Abraham, with I.M. Lockhart, gave a lecture 'Hydrogenolysis of bacitracin' and, with Guy Newton, 'Antibacterial peptides related to penicillin. Copy of printed 'Résumés des Communications' (abstracts of the lectures

F.2: International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney, Australia, 15-25 August 1960. The symposium was organised by the Australian Academy of Science and held under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). Abraham, with Guy Newton, gave a lecture 'Degradation of cephalosporin C'. Includes a copy of the Symposium Handbook interleaved with pages of rough manuscript notes, some in Abraham's hand.

F.3: Conference (Gordon research Conference) on Medicinal Chemistry, Colby Junior College, New London, New Hampshire, USA, 30 July-3 August 1962. Abraham gave a lecture 'Biochemical and Microbiological Studies on Derivatives of 7-Amino-cephalosporanic Acid'. Includes a Programme with manuscript notes by Abraham on a number of pages and a letter arising, July 1962.

F.4: Cephaloridine Conference, New College Oxford, 13-16 March 1967. The conference was arranged jointly by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and Glaxo Laboratories Ltd. Abraham chaired one session for which he gave a short introductory speech. Contains a letter regarding arrangements, with programmes; a 1p copy of typescript of Abraham's speech entitled 'Cephaloridine - Historical Remarks'; and a 1p copy of a typescript of Guy Newton's speech from the same session.

F.5-F.10: Visit to the USA, April 1967. Abraham was invited to give lectures at the University of Wisconsin (one of a series of Rennebohm Lectures) and at a 'Penicillins and Cephalosporins' symposium held during the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Las Vegas. F.5-F.6 contain material relating to the Rennebohm Lecture by Abraham, University of Wisconsin, 6 April 1967. The title of the lecture was 'Penicillins and Cephalosporins - their chemistry in relation to biological activity'. F.7-F.8 contain material relating to the 'Penicillins and Cephalosporins' symposium, Las Vegas, 9-14 April 1967. The title of Abraham's lecture was 'Penicillins and Cephalosporins - their chemistry in relation to biological properties'. F.9 contains correspondence arising from the two lectures and from the visit to the USA in general, November 1966-September 1967. F.10 contains miscellaneous material found with the papers described above.

Date

1955-1967

Language

English

Physical extent

10 folders