Lecture, Exhibit, Reception: The Robert Galambos Papers (Neuroscience History Archives, UCLA: 17 March 2000)
The Neuroscience History Archives of the UCLA Brain Research Institute is pleased to announce the opening of THE ROBERT GALAMBOS PAPERS Lecture, Exhibit, and Reception 17 March 2000 at 3:00 p.m. Rare Book Room History & Special Collections Division 4th floor/9th level of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library 12-077 Center for the Health Sciences University of California, Los Angeles "Robert Galambos discovered, with Donald Griffin, the phenomenon of echolocation in bats. During his career he carried out fundamental physiological studies of the auditory system using microelectrodes in cats, and later studied brain waves and auditory evoked potentials in humans. He was an early and forceful protagonist for the importance of glia in the function of the nervous system." ---_The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography_, edited by Larry R. Squire (Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 1996), v.1. p.[179] You are invited to join us in celebrating a major collection of manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, travel diaries, lab notebooks, and other papers, now open for scholarly research in the history of neuroscience. Doctor Galambos will reminisce about his 65 years in science and items from the collection will be on display during a reception. For more information call the NHA: (310) 825-3191 or e-mail: LMarshall@mednet.ucla.edu or rjohnson@library.ucla.edu Please forward this message to interested colleagues and friends. ___________________________________________________ Russell A. Johnson rjohnson@library.ucla.edu Archivist and Cataloger (310) 825-6940 History & Special Collections Division Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA Box 951798 Los Angeles CA 90095-1798 <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/hisdiv.htm> Archivist (310) 825-3191 or 206-2753 Neuroscience History Archives Brain Research Institute, UCLA Box 951761 Los Angeles CA 90095-1761 <http://www.medsch.ucla.edu/som/bri/archives/nhahome.htm>