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ASM0081
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Collection
Title
Sydney Fox collection
Date(s)
- 1967-1978 (Creation)
Extent
1 Box
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Scope and content
Dr. Sidney Walter Fox (1912-1998) was a biochemist known for discoveries in the autosynthesis of protocells. Fox served as director of the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Evolution (IMCE) at the University of Miami.
The Sidney Fox Collection contains 9 NASA reports concerning the NASA Surveyor Program which took place from 1966 to 1968. The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon, with the intent of demonstrating the possibility of soft landings on the Moon.
Also included is a 1978 interview with Russian-American inventor and engineer Dr. Vladimir Zworykin.
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This collection is open for research.
Physical access
Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.
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Conditions governing reproduction
Sydney Fox Collection Finding Aid © 2009 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
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- English
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- Surveyor Program (U.S.) (Subject)
- University of Miami. Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution (Subject)
- Fox, Sidney W. (Subject)
- Zworykin, V. K. (Vladimir Kosma), 1889-1982 (Subject)