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Title: |
Elwood V. Jensen Collection |
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Repository: |
University of Cincinnati, Health Sciences Library, Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions
Phone: 513-558-5120 http://www.libraries.uc.edu/winkler-center.html |
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Creator: |
Jensen, Elwood V. |
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Dates: |
1963-2008 |
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Quantity: |
4.25 linear feet |
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Abstract: |
Elwood Jensen received his doctorate degree in organic chemistry from The University of Chicago in 1944. He entered into the Ben May Laboratory at the University of Chicago three years later as an Assistant Professor, and a member of the research team in 1951. It was this same laboratory in which he later discovered estrogen receptors' crucial role in breast cancer. He took a leave of absence to serve as a Research Director for the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Zurich, Switzerland. He later worked at the University of Cincinnati from 2002 until approximately a year before his death in 2012. |
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Identification: |
WC-16 |
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Location: |
University of Cincinnati, Health Sciences Library, Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions |
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Language: |
The records are in English |
Elwood Vernon Jensen was born in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1920. He was pre-schooled by his mother, a teacher, and entered grade school in Ohio, where he grew up and later matriculated at Wittenberg College. He received his doctorate in organic chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1944. Jensen entered the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Ben May Laboratories at University of Chicago in 1947 and later did a sabbatical at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. While in Switzerland, he climbed the Swiss face of the Matterhorn-one of the highest peaks in the Alps-even though he had no mountaineering experience. In 1951, Jensen returned to the Ben May Laboratories for Cancer Research and became Director there in 1969. After the death of his first wife, Mary Collette, in 1982, he took a leave of absence to serve as a Research Director for the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Zurich, Switzerland where he met his second wife. After retirement from Chicago in 1990, Jensen was Scholar-in-Residence at Cornell Medical College, Alexander von Humboldt visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, and Nobel visiting professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm before his appointment at the University of Cincinnati in 2002 as the Distinguished University Professor, George and Elizabeth Wile Chair in Cancer Research. Here at the University of Cincinnati, he performed his late and final scientific work. Jensen passed away on December 16, 2012, at the age of 92.
This collection contains awards, photographs, medical journals, newspaper articles, and personal correspondence. Where noted in the below inventory, some items, due to their size, have been moved to oversize locations. Series I consists of three sub-series: Articles, publications and research, and Awards. This includes over one hundred published articles about Dr. Jensen and his extensive cancer research, as well as several medical journals he collected throughout the 1970's. Subseries IA consists of articles published about Jensen's professional career and his findings from breast cancer receptors. Subseries IB contains Jensen's higher education material, such as journals and articles published through the University of Chicago, as well as correspondence from peers. Subseries IC consists of awards and certificates Jensen received throughout his professional career including the Prix Russel, General Motors and the golden plate awards. Series II consists of material Jensen collected throughout his life such as trips overseas, climbing Swiss face of the Matterhorn, boy scouts, cards and drawings from his family. Subseries IIA consists of material Jensen collected throughout his life such as trips overseas, boy scouts, and the quadrangle club. Subseries IIB contains scrapbooks, assumedly constructed by his first wife Mary and their two children Karen and Thomas. This series also contains several holiday cards from loved ones. Series III consists of photos and negatives from his professional career and his personal life. Subseries IIIA consists of photos from lectures, dinners, receptions and work. Subseries IIIB contains photos from birthdays, vacations, extended family, graduations and other family events. Subseries IIIC contains negatives of personal and professional photos.
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There are no restrictions on accessing material in this collection
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
(Box #, Folder #), WC-16 Elwood V. Jensen Collection, Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
This collection was processed by Hannah Grilliot, July 2019.
https://findingaids.libraries.uc.edu/repositories/4/resources/833