Perkin-Elmer Corporation

Research files, manuscripts, correspondence, patents, reports, data, presentations, and publications belonging to American analytical chemist Abraham Savitzky.

Letter of correspondence, photograph, and memorial service program collected by Andrea Allen, the daughter of American chemist and Perkin-Elmer Corporation employee Thomas J. Porro.

Printed materials published by scientific instrument manufacturers collected by analytical chemist Benjamin W. Smith.

These are the surviving files of the scientific instrumentation museum established by the European branch of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation in Bodensee, Germany. The processed portion of this collection is arranged into four series: Museum Administration Files, Research Files, Technical Information Files and Workshops. The unprocessed portions are broadly listed as Miscellaneous. Collection partially processed in 2003.

DVDs and video cassette tapes covering a variety of science-related topics, events, and organizations.

This is a collection largely comprised of training materials prepared for various Perkin-Elmer made FT-IR analytical instruments.

Correspondence files, working papers, presentation/instructional materials, reports, and publications of American engineer, scientific instrument designer, and science journal editor Walter Slavin. The materials in this collection document Slavin’s career at Perkin-Elmer Corporation and his editorship of the science journal Spectrochimica Acta, Part B.

Publications, reprints, correspondence, reports, event programs, conference agendas, news releases, and manuals belonging to Paul A. Wilks, Jr.

This material offers a broad overview of the Perkin-Elmer instrument Corp. as it prepared to celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 1987. It also includes material from the Perkin-Elmer Corporation mostly concerned with internal and external publicity.

Included in this collection is brief illustrated history of the firm by then president Horace G. McDonell and several pieces by and about John G. Atwood, Senior Scientist, Instruments Group at the corporation.