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1898–1974 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by J. W. Roy Norton.
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Public health runs through the papers of J. W. Roy Norton, 1898 to 1974, which span the 1930s to the 1970s. The papers concern his work at the School of Public Health in Chapel Hill and public health work across North Carolina, taking in epidemiology, communicable disease, birth control, public health administration and substance abuse. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4571.
Letters of 1959 to Duke vice president Paul M. Gross from William M. Whyburn of the University of North Carolina and others, on the Governor's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Energy. Included are a draft act on ionizing radiation, radiation machines, radioactive materials and atomic energy, and papers on a Southern interstate nuclear effort. Luther Hodges, Dean W. Colvard and J. W. Roy Norton are among those named. 36 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Norton, J. W. Roy, 1898-1974.
Correspondence from 1959 and 1960 to Paul M. Gross of Duke about the North Carolina Atomic Energy Commission, with Governor Luther Hodges among the writers. It includes the final text of the state's law on atomic energy, radioactivity and ionizing radiation and a memorandum setting out radiological health duties under the State Board of Health. 27 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Norton, J. W. Roy, 1898-1974.
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