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Mann, Thaddeus Robert Rudolph (1908-1993)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/64

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Mann, Thaddeus Robert Rudolph (1908-1993)

Date(s): 1938-1984

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 boxes

Name of creator(s): Mann | Thaddeus Robert Rudolph | 1908-1993 | doctor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1908. The core of the collection are reprints on biological catalysts, cellular respiration and enzymes, published during the period 1925-1960 by David Keilin, ScD,FRS (1887-1963) and his associates at the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology. Professor Mann worked with him from 1935-1942 on collaborated research into enzymology and cellular metabolism. 'Together we succeeded in discovering the first enzyme-substrate reaction by demonstrating that peroxidase, the methaemoglobin-like plant enzyme, forms two distinct reaction products with hydrogen peroxide. We identified copper in the enzymes of polyphenol oxidase from mushrooms and laccase from the lacquer tree. We succeeded in isolating and crystallizing haemocuprein, the first copper-protein from mammalian blood-corpuscles, and we were the first to discover zinc in an enzyme, namely that of carbonic anhydrase from mallian blood.' Some of his subsequent research was carried out at the Molteno Institute: 1942-1944, metabolism of mould fungi; after 1944, metabolism of mammalian semen, discovery of fructose in semen and many other studies on the biochemistry of spermatozoa, male accessory secretions and male reproductive organs; died 1993.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann, 1938-1984; comprising biographical and bibliographical material, notebooks and reprints on enzyme research, 1938-1954; photographs of the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology, Cambridge, 1925-1960.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

4 series: notebooks, bibliography, reprints and publications.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Professor Mann gave his reprints and additional papers to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1984.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

In 1991 additional biographical material and twelve laboratory notebooks recording research in physiology and biochemistry of reproduction, 1947-1976, were given to Cambridge University Library via the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS catalogue no 30/6/91 6 pp).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: September 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Enzymes | Biochemicals | Biochemistry
Medical research
Physiology
Science

Personal names
Mann | Thaddeus Robert Rudolph | 1908-1993 | doctor

Corporate names

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