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Perkin-Elmer Corporation

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Abraham Savitzky Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1999-011
Abstract

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

Dates: 1949-1989

Andrea Allen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-008
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2020

Bodensee Perkin-Elmer Museum of Instrumental Analysis files

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-003-215
Abstract

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.

Dates: undated

Papers of Thomas J. Porro

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-080
Abstract

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

Dates: 1958-1992; Majority of material found within 1970-1980

Papers of Walter Slavin

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-010-001
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1936-2003; Majority of material found within Bulk 1977-2000

Paul A. Wilks, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-012
Abstract

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

Dates: 1945-2002

Perkin-Elmer-Applera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GB01-036
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1943-1998; Majority of material found within 1950-1989

Perkin Elmer Corporation miscellaneous materials

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-521
Scope and content

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.

Dates: 1977-1999

Photographs from the Perkin-Elmer-Applera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GB01-36-002
Abstract

Print photographs and slides depicting the staff, facilities, and instrumentation of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation dating from the 1930s through the 1980s.

Dates: 1937-1985; Majority of material found within 1960s-1970s

Robert Van Egghen Perkin-Elmer Corporation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-021
Abstract

A collection of technical and marketing documents and materials from 1950-2011 pertaining to American scientific instrument and apparatus manufacturer Perkin-Elmer Corporation, which were collected and maintained by Robert Van Egghen.

Dates: 1950-2011

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Subject
Archival materials 9
Scientific apparatus and instruments 7
Corporations -- History 6
Infrared spectroscopy 5
Photographs 4