Curiosity & Collaboration: The Work of Michael Potter (1924–2013)

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If you are of a certain age, you might know how to use this slide rule, which belonged to Dr. Michael Potter.

Slide rule artifacts page

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This book, by James Ewing, was bought for the NIH when it was still singular (National Institute of Health) and located on Navy Hill in downtown Washington, D.C. Ewing was the first director of pathology at Memorial Hospital in New York, which was the first cancer center in the United States.

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The book was bought for the NIH by Dr. Wilton Earle, who was responsible for the development of many tissue culture techniques. Potter may have used Willis’ book as inspiration for a manuscript that he was working on when he died about the history of plasma cell tumor research.

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This book was edited by Michael Potter, Joseph H. Nadeau (Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor, Maine), and Michael P. Cancro (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Pathology), from papers presented at a 1985 workshop in Bethesda on the use of wild mice in a wide variety of research.

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Dr. Michael Potter did not finish this sculpture of a woman, which sat upon a driftwood base. This sculpture represented an artistic change from making sculptures out of found natural elements like shells and stones, to a more traditional medium

Several additional images of another sculpture of a woman's head are also included on the Potter clay sculpture artifacts page.Description

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