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                              #4406
                    JOSEPH LOGAN IRVIN PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Joseph Logan Irvin was a professor in the School
           of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel
           Hill, 1950-1978, and chairman of the Department of
           Biochemistry in the medical school, 1957-1978.
               Notes by Irvin, examinations, and other material
           relating to courses he taught and to his research
           interests.  Topics include enzyme kinetics, nuclear
           magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and potassium influx
           transport problems.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Biochemists--North Carolina.
   Biochemistry--History.
   Enzyme kinetics--History.
   Irvin, Joseph Logan, 1913-1984.
   Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy--History.
   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of
       Medicine--Faculty--History--20th century.
   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of
       Medicine.  Dept. of Biochemistry--History.

Size:  About 420 items (0.5 feet).

Provenance:    Received from Mrs. Logan Irvin of Chapel Hill, NC,
               in December 1984.

Access:  No restrictions.

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.

Table of Contents:
          Biographical Note
          Description
          Shelf List

                        BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

   Joseph Logan Irvin was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on 24
November 1913.  He received his Bachelor of Science degree from
the University of South Carolina in 1934 and his Ph.D. in
biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1938.  Irvin
began his teaching career as an instructor in biochemistry at the
School of Medicine, Wayne State University, in 1938, and held
that position until 1941.

   In 1941, Irvin became an assistant professor in physiological
chemistry at the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. 
In 1950, Irvin became a full professor at the School of Medicine
at  the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He served
as chairman of the Department of Biochemistry in the Medical
School from 1957 to 1978, also holding the title of Kenan
Professor of Biochemistry.  Some of his research interests
included regulation of nucleic acid synthesis, metabolism of
histones, the biochemistry of spermatogensis, and cancer.

   For further biographical information see American Men and
Women of Science: Physical and Biological Sciences (1982).

                           DESCRIPTION

1956-1973, undated.  About 420 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title of file.

   Chiefly subject notes and copies of course examinations
relating to Irvin's lecture courses and research interests.

Folder   1.    Appetite and starvation
       2-3.    Enzyme kinetics
         4.    Exams, Ph.D. and M.S.
         5.    Grant application material
         6.    Hypophosphatasia, vitamin D, and parathyroid
               harmone
         7.    Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
         8.    Physical chemistry
         9.    Potassium influx transport problems
        10.    Research needs, personal

                           SHELF LIST

   Box 1 (only)