Gordon K. Klintworth Papers, 1939-2006

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Summary

Creator:
Klintworth, Gordon K.
Abstract:
Contains professional papers from Gordon K. Klintworth (1932-2014), professor of ophthalmology. Types of materials include pathology reports, correspondence, and article reprints relating to Klintworth's ophthalmology patients and research. Materials range in date from 1939 to 2006.
Extent:
7.5 Linear Feet (5 cartons)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0099

Background

Scope and content:

Contains pathology reports, correspondence, and article reprints relating to Klintworth's ophthalmology patients and research. Materials range in date from 1939 to 2006.

Biographical / historical:

Gordon Kenneth Klintworth was born in 1932 in in Rhodesia, present day Zimbabwe, to John and Iveagh Klintworth. He received an MD and PhD from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. Due to his South African heritage, Klintworth came to the Duke University in 1963 in order to escape political and civil unrest in his native country.
Klintworth was first appointed assistant professor of pathology at Duke in 1966. The Department of Ophthalmology recruited him and he became a professor of ophthalmology in 1978. Klintworth also served as the Durham County medical examiner from 1972 to 1986.
Klintworth was a fellow of the American College of Pathologists and an active member of several professional societies, including the U.S.-Canadian Academy of Pathology, the American Society of Human Genetics, and the American Association of Pathologists. He was a founding member of the American Association of Ophthalmic Pathologists, the Cogan Ophthalmic History Society, and the International Society of Ophthalmic Pathology.
Klintworth's numerous honors include being awarded the Zimmerman Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Ophthalmic Pathology and the Ashton Medal of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Early in his career Klintworth received a career development award from the National Eye Institute, and received further funding from the institute for two research grants and a clinical-scientist training program in ophthalmology at Duke.
Klintworth married Felicity Tait Klintworth, and they had three children. Gordon Kenneth Klintworth died in 2014.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2008.033 (transferred by Duke University Department of Ophthalmology, May 2008), Accession A2008.034 (gift by Duke University Department of Ophthalmology, June 2008)
Processing information:

Processed by Dawne Howard Lucas: July 2008; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: July 2008

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Surgical Ophthalmic Pathology Reports, 1939-1996; Cornea Surgical Pathology Reports, 1968-1983; Ocular and Orbital Tumor Surgical Pathology Reports, 1970-1980; Reprints, 1964-2006.
Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Duke University Medical Center Library's online catalog.

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Personal Name(s):
Klintworth, Gordon K.
Corporate Name(s):
Duke University. Medical Center
Duke University. School of Medicine
Topical Term(s):
Education, Medical.
Ophthalmology.
Faculty.

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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], Gordon K. Klintworth Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.