Stanley Plotkin papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2/353

Overview

Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., has authored and co-authored over 700 publications and developed the standard rubella vaccination which is used worldwide. He is the co-developer of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine, and has worked extensively on the development and application of other vaccines including anthrax, oral polio, rabies, varicella, and cytomegalovirus. The collection houses reprints, correspondence, testimonies, and lab reports,... pertaining to the controversy of the origin of HIV and its debated relation to the oral polio vaccine tested in the Belgian Congo in the late 1950s. See more

Dates

1956-1959, 1999-2003

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is fully restricted until the donor is deceased.

Extent

.6 Linear feet (1 document box and 1 half document box)

Language of Materials

English

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Stanley Plotkin papers
Author: Chrissie Perella
Date: 21-22 April 2014
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin
Language of description note: English

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository

http://www.collegeofphysicians.org/library/

Contact:
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States

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