Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr.
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1904 - 1973
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Gibbon family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/287
Scope and Contents
This bulk of this small collection of personal material from members
of the Gibbon family of Philadelphia, 1901-1929, is comprised
of letters of Marjorie Young Gibbon and surgeon John H. Gibbon
concerning their engagement, daughter Marjorie, and Gibbon's
1905 transatlantic voyages. The collection also includes letters
of the young John Heysham Gibbon, physician and inventor of
the heart lung machine.
Dates:
1901 - 1929
John Heysham Gibbon papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/204
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a set of schematic drawings and plans
of the heart lung machine developed in the 1950s by the International
Business Machines Corporation for John Heysham Gibbon. The
plans are numbered, 288-0100 to 2880314 and 288-0350 to 288-0469,
and filed in numerical sequence. The collection contains 344
items.The plans, produced from 1950 to 1954 and approved in 1954, concern
Model III of the machine and incorporate minor refinements and
design changes on Model...
Dates:
1950 - 1954
Katharine Sturgis presidential papers
Series
Identifier: CPP 2/002-03
Overview
Katharine Rosenbaum Guest Boucot Sturgis was born in Philadelphia in 1903, and graduated from Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia in 1940.Katharine R. Sturgis's connection with the College of Physicians of Philadelphia began in 1951 when she was elected a Fellow. In 1972, after more than twenty years as a member, Sturgis became the College's first woman president. A year later, she was forced to retire due to health problems. Sturgis died in Philadelphia in 1987....
Dates:
1972-1974
Small collections of the Office of the President
Series
Identifier: CPP 2/012
Overview
This collection dates from 1908 to 1985, and consists of single files containing documentation left by various College Presidents. Researchers should note that there is not a substantial amount of information regarding any one President’s term found in this collection.
Please see the Series descriptions for more information.
Please see the Series descriptions for more information.
Dates:
1908-1985
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