Title: Harold F. Blum Papers

Date/Date Range :   1939-1943

Extent: 2.0 linear feet

Abstract:

Blum's files are comprised mostly of notes on his irradiation of mice experiment, manuscripts of his publications, and notes on several other projects.

Call number: MS-0988

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Harold F. Blum Papers, MS-0988. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of two boxes.

Harold Francis Blum was born in Escondido, California, on February 12, 1899. He graduated from the University of California in 1922 and received his Ph. D. from Harvard Medical School in 1927. His career in higher education included posts at the University of California, Temple University Skin and Cancer Hospital, Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, Princeton University, the Naval Medical Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute, and the State University of New York at Albany. During the course of his career, he earned several fellowships and awards, including the Finsen prize on photobiology (1976). He was also an official in several professional societies. Blum authored a number of scholarly books, including Time's Arrow and Evolution (1951) and Carcinogenesis by Ultraviolet Light (1959), and was a frequent contributor to scientific journals. Blum died on October 29, 1980 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Blum's files are comprised mostly of notes on his irradiation of mice experiment, manuscripts of his publications, and notes on several other projects.

• Blum, Harold F. (Harold Francis), 1899-.
• Radiobiology.