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John L. Pool Jr Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0002

Scope and Contents

2.3 cubic feet. Consists of correspondence, papers, lectures, and photographs, particularly pertaining to the topics of lung cancer and thoracic service.

Dates

  • 1960

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Material is stored off site and requires three business days advance notice for retrieval. To inquire about the collection, please contact the MSK Archivist.

Conditions Governing Use

Due to the sensitive nature of some of the content within MSK’s collections, advance permission is needed before citing or reproducing collection content. To inquire about the collection, please contact the MSK Archivist.

Biographical / Historical

John Lawrence Pool, Jr. was born in 1907 in New York City, graduating from Princeton in 1930 (AB) and Columbia 1934 (MD). In addition to his career as a thoracic surgeon, Pool served as president of the New York Academy of Medicine and in 1968 served as president of the American Radium Society. An affiliate of Memorial Hospital, Pool taught as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Cornell and Yale. He died April 19, 2005.

Extent

2.3 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English