John punnett peters biography
- Biography.
- John Punnett Peters was an American Episcopal clergyman and Orientalist.
- John Punnett Peters (December 4, 1887 – December 29, 1955) was an American physician, the John Slade Ely Professor of Medicine at Yale University from 1928.
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John P. Peters Collection of Drawings and Plans of an Archeological Excavation at Nippur
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Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1996
Scope and Contents
Circa 55 archeological illustrations and 95 archeological plans collected by John P. Peters and relating to the excavation of Nippur in Iraq, circa 1888-1895. Drawings are of various architectural structures (primarily ziggurats) and antiquities.
Dates
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
John P. Peters Collection of Drawings and Plans of an Archeological Excavation at Nippur is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
From the Library of John Punnett Peters (Yale 1873), 1923.
Arrangement
Arranged by material size.
Extent
8.5 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
Eng
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John P. Peters
American chemist
This article is about the physician. For his father the Episcopal clergyman, see John Punnett Peters. For other people, see John Peters.
John Punnett Peters (December 4, 1887 – December 29, 1955)[1][2] was an American physician, the John Slade Ely Professor of Medicine at Yale University from 1928 until his death in 1955. He was "one of the founders of modern clinical chemistry".[3] His 1932 textbook Quantitative Clinical Chemistry, coauthored with Donald Van Slyke, established clinical chemistry as a distinct discipline. His research articles and textbooks advanced the laboratory in the diagnosis and management of disease.[1] The book advanced the study of clinical chemistry, i.e. the measurement of blood levels of sodium, potassium, glucose, etc. as essential components of understanding health and disease. Along with other physicians and scientists, he “established the basis of our present scientific understanding of body fluids.”[4]
Peters was born in Philadelphia. He spent much of
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John Punnett Peters papers
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Collection
Call Number: MS 897
Scope and Contents
The John Punnett Peters Papers document several aspects of the professional life of Dr. Peters, John Slade Ely Professor of Medicine at Yale University. The Papers provide information on his battle for national health insurance under the auspices of the Committee of Physicians for the Improvement of Medical Care, Inc., his involvement in liberal causes, the loss of his security clearance, and his research interests and publications. They are divided into four series, PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, WRITINGS, PERSONAL PAPERS, and CASE FILES.
Series I, PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, is housed in Boxes 1-7, folders 1-198. It contains correspondence primarily, but also includes broadsides, reports, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, etc. Series I has ample material to document Peters' crusade for national health insurance and his activity in support of progressive causes from the late 1930s to the 1950s, but much less on his professional activities and his relationship with
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