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<a href = "#m+spanish" class="TEXT">Spanish Version of MedlinePlus Released</a><br /><br />
<a href = "#lji" class="TEXT"><em>List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicius (LJI)</em> - 2002 - Now Available</a><br /><br />
<a href = "#gateway" class="TEXT">New Version of NLM Gateway Released - September 19, 2002</a><br /><br />
<a href = "#umls" class="TEXT">Reminder: October 17, 2002 UMLS Basics Class</a><br /><br />
<a href = "#reorg" class="TEXT">NLM Completes the Reorganization of its Bibliographic Databases</a><br /><br />
<a href = "#milestone" class="TEXT">NLM Indexes Over Half-Million Articles in 2002</a><br /><br />
<a href = "#new" class="TEXT">How to Keep Up with What's New with PubMed<sup><font size=-2>&#174;</font></sup> and the NLM Gateway</a><br /><br />
<a href = "#profiles" class="TEXT">Papers of Nobel Scientists Barbara McClintock, Linus Pauling and Donald Fredrickson
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<font size="2"><strong>October 29, 2002</strong> [posted]</font>
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The Barbara McClintock Papers, the Linus Pauling Papers, and the Donald Fredrickson Papers are the most recent collections
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Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was an American geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
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throughout her career as one of the most distinguished scientists of the 20th century. The American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia is the
repository for the Barbara McClintock Papers, which range from 1927 to 1991. The collection contains laboratory notes, correspondence,
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Linus Pauling (1901-1994) was an American chemist who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research into
the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances." He also won
the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize, making him the only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes. The Oregon State University Libraries in
Corvallis is the repository for the Linus Pauling Papers. The collection contains personal and scientific papers, notebooks, correspondence, research
models and memorabilia.
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Donald Fredrickson (1924-2002) was an American physiologist and biomedical research leader who made significant
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As part of its NLM <em>Profiles in Science</em> project, the National Library of Medicine is digitizing and making available over the World-Wide Web a
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Fredrickson Papers that are now publicly available.
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