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R.D.H. Heard Fonds
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- Source of title proper: Based on the documents in the fonds
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CA OSLER P044
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1933? (Creation)
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- Heard, R. D. H. (Robert Donald Hoskin), 1908-1957
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1 cm of textual records
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Name of creator
(1908-1957)
Biographical history
Robert Donald Hoskin Heard was born in St. Thomas, Ontario in 1908. He received his BA and MA (1930) from University of Toronto. From 1930 to 1933 he was an 1851 Research Fellow while he studied for his PhD (1932) in Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He spent one year at Oxford before returning to University of Toronto as a Banting Research Foundation grantee. He was an assistant professor at Dalhousie from 1937 to 1942. He was invited to join the McGill University Department of Biochemistry in 1942 where he remained until his death in 1957.
He pioneered work in synthesis of steroids containing radiolabelled isotopes. He authored many papers such as “A study of the oxidation of 3:4-dihydroxyphenyl-N-methylalanine with reference to its possible function as a precursor of adrenaline.” The Biochemical Journal. 27: 36-53 (1933).
Custodial history
Gift of Dr. T.L. Sourkes, from the Department of Psychiatry of McGill University, 2 June 1977. Old accession number 567.
Scope and content
Fonds contains the laboratory notebook used by R.D.H. Heard at the University of Toronto during his attempts to synthesize adrenaline and adrenaline-like substances in 1933.
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English
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The documents are in English.
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Items can be requested for consultation online via the Library Catalogue or by email at osler.library@mcgill.ca. Advance notice is recommended.
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Osler Database ID
4563
Osler Fonds ID
34
Osler Alternate ID
P44