Henry Kamin Papers, 1940-1988, bulk 1960-1988

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Summary

Creator:
Kamin, Henry
Abstract:
Contains the professional papers of Henry Kamin, biochemist at Duke University Medical Center. Types of materials include correspondence, reports, committee materials, clippings, short writings, photographs, and memorabilia. Major subjects include Duke University, Medical Center, School of Medicine, and nutrition policy in the United States, flavins and flavoproteins, and metabolism. Materials range in date from 1940 to 1988 (bulk 1960-1988).
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0029

Background

Scope and content:

Organized into the following series: Food and Drug Administration--Recommended Daily Allowance Committee Materials, 1982-1985; Professional Correspondence, 1968-1986; Flavins and Flavoproteins Symposium Materials, 1969-1978; Food and Nutrition Board, 1978-1984; Subject Files, 1960-1986, and Photographs, Writings, and Memorabilia, 1940-1988.

Biographical / historical:

Henry Kamin was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920 and came to the United States in 1926. Kamin received degrees from City College of New York (B.S., 1940) and Duke University (Ph.D.,1948). During World War II, he served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. He served as the principle scientist Veteran's Administration Hospital in Durham, N.C. from 1953 to 1968. Kamin joined Duke University in 1950 as an instructor in biochemistry. He became a full professor in 1965. Kamin also served as a consultant, member, or chair of various professional committees including the Food and Nutrition Board, Nutrition Review Committee and Dietary Allowance Committee (chair 1980-1985) of the National Academy of Sciences, American Society of Biological Chemists, American Institute on Nutrition, and the American Chemical Society. Kamin was awarded several grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. He was the author of many works on flavones including The Metabolism of Parenterally Administered Glycine (1948), The Metabolism of Parenterally Administered Amino Acids. I. Glycine (1949), Microsomal TPNH-Cytochrome C Reductase (1965), and editor of Flavins and Flavoproteins III, 1971. He was a longtime editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Oxidation and Phosphorylation. He also helped to organize and direct the Flavins and Flavoproteins Symposium for many years. Kamin married Dorothy Lee Lingle in 1943. He was a charter member of a local community organization, the Durham Savoyards.

Acquisition information:
Transfer; ca. 1989
Processing information:

Processed by: Archives staff and Emily Glenn, June 2003 Encoded by: Emily Glenn, April 2004

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Contains University Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the University Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the University Archivist. (Issued by the Office of the Chancellor, December 1, 1975).

Terms of access:

Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Henry Kamin Papers, Medical Center Archives. Duke University.