Montrose Moses Papers, 1962-1987

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Summary

Creator:
Moses, Montrose and Moses, Montrose
Abstract:
Contains the professional papers of Montrose J. Moses (1919-1911), professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Duke University Medical Center. Types of materials include correspondence, notes, brochures, minutes, agendas, proposals, reports, grant materials, personnel rosters, surveys, evaluations, clippings, slides, writings by Moses, photographs, programs, bulletins, architectural plans, and course materials, which includes grade sheets, lecture materials, schedules, laboratory guides, student rosters, and composites. These materials pertain to various departments at Duke University Medical Center. Major subjects include the reorganization of basic sciences within the School of Medicine, the Department of Anatomy, personnel policy, Duke's genetics program, and plans for the modular interdisciplinary laboratory. Materials date from 1965 to 1984.
Extent:
6 Linear Feet (4 cartons)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0076

Background

Scope and content:

Materials include correspondence, notes, brochures, minutes, agendas, proposals, reports, grant materials, personnel rosters, surveys, evaluations, clippings, slides, writings by Moses, photographs, programs, bulletins, architectural plans, and course materials, which includes grade sheets, lecture materials, schedules, laboratory guides, student rosters, and composites. These materials pertain to various departments at Duke University Medical Center. Major subjects include the reorganization of basic sciences within the School of Medicine, the Department of Anatomy, personnel policy, Duke's genetics program, and plans for the modular interdisciplinary laboratory. Materials date from 1965 to 1984.

Biographical / historical:

Montrose James Moses was born in New York City, New York, on June 26, 1919 to Montrose J. and Dorothy H. Moses. He received a bachelor's degree in Biology from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine (1941), a masters degree in Zoology from Columbia University (1942), and a Ph.D. in Zoology (Cytochemistry) from Columbia University (1949). He served in the U.S. Army from July 1942 until March 1946, achieving the rank of Captain. During his military service, Moses was in charge of radio-telephone operations for General Headquarters Southwest Pacific Area.
Moses worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, from 1948 until 1957, starting as an associate cytochemist, then cytochemist, and finally guest lecturer. His field of research at Brookhaven was quantitative analysis of chemical components (nucleoproteins) in single cells and parts of cells in normal and irradiated tissues. While still working at Brookhaven, Moses also worked for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City. In 1954, Moses became a principal investigator for an American Cancer Society Special Purpose Research Grant. He worked at the Rockefeller Institute until 1959, also working as a visiting investigator, an assistant, an associate, and an assistant professor. Moses's field research at the Rockefeller Institute was cytology, more specifically electron microscopy and cytochemistry of the nucleus and chromosomes; correlation of cytochemical light and electron microscope techniques in the study of cell structure and function; and the evaluation of the color-translating ultra-violet microscope as a tool in cytology.
In 1959, Moses became an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy at Duke University School of Medicine. He became a professor in 1966 and served as vice-chairman from 1987 to 1988. In 1981, he became the R. J. Reynolds Professor in Medical Education (emeritus since July 1989). Moses joined the Department of Cell Biology upon its establishment in 1988. His field of research at Duke was cell structure and function with emphasis on the microscopic and submicroscopic organization of the nucleus and chromosomes, as well as meiosis and the synaptonemal complex, cytogenetic analysis and chromosome mechanics, karyotype evolution in primates, and macromolecular differentiations in development of the male gamete. In addition, Moses focused in techniques of descriptive, analytical, and quantitative light and electron microscopy. Moses also served a temporary appointment as a visiting professor of genetics in the Pediatric Research Unit at Guy's Hospital Medical School in London, England, from September 1980 until March 1981.
During his career, Moses was a member of numerous scientific societies, including the American Association of Anatomists, the American Society for Cell Biologists (secretary, 1961-1967; president-elect, 1967-1968; president, 1968-1969; meeting coordinator, 1969-1970), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (fellow), the Histochemical Society (council member, 1959-1963), and Sigma Xi (president, Duke Chapter, 1969-1970). He was on the editorial board for "The Journal of Cell Biology" (1968-1970), the board of advisory editors for the "International Review of Cytology" from (1971-1976), and the board of editors for "Cytogenetics and Cell Genetic" (1981 until 1985). He authored more than 100 publications.
Moses married Constance Roy in 1949; they had two children. After his wife's death in 1985, Moses married Marlene Johnson in 1987. Montrose Moses died on September 26, 2011 in Durham, North Carolina.

Acquisition information:
Source unknown
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff: circa 2007; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: October 2007

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Department of Anatomy, 1962-1981; Institutional, 1972-1987.
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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This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals or IRB approval may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Duke University assumes no responsibility.
This collection contains materials restricted at the folder level, in accordance with Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). For further information consult with the Medical Center Archivist.

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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], Montrose Moses Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.