Kenneth Allan Caldwell Elliott Fonds
1,4 m of textual records. – 1,673 slides. – 102 photographs. – 9 drawings. – 4 postcards.
1903-1986
Kenneth Allan Caldwell Elliott was born in Kimberly, South Africa, on August 24th, 1903. He attended Christian Brothers’ College, Kimberley (1909-1916), and St. Andrews College, Grahamstown (1917-1920). He attended Rhodes University College, South Africa (1921-1924), where he obtained a B.Sc. (1923) and M.Sc. (1924). From 1926 to 1933, Elliott studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1930 and later a Sc.D. in 1950. From 1926 to 1933, Dr. Elliott did research in chemistry and biochemistry. In 1933, Dr. Elliott began his association with the University of Pennsylvania where he was engaged as a biochemist until 1939. The next five years were spent working on brain research at the Psychiatric Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Elliott’s employment at the Montreal Institute Neurological as a neurochemist began in 1944 and continued until 1965. He was also a professor (1958-1971) and chairman of the Biochemistry Department, at McGill University (1958-1968). In 1973, Dr. Elliott became Emeritus Professor of McGill University. Dr. Elliott died in Montreal on April 28, 1986.
The fonds illustrates Dr. Elliott’s work as a neurochemist and consists of correspondence, letters, articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, research material and notes, course material, manuscripts, typescripts. The fonds is divided into seven series.
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The fonds was transferred to the Osler Library from the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1986. This was part of accession 864.
The documents are in English and French.
Based on the documents in the fonds
P164
Research Notebooks, 1927-1957
GABA Studies, 1957
Correspondence – American, Canadian, British and South African associations of Scientific Workers, 1929-1982
Correspondence, 1944-1986
Teaching files, 1903-1982
Slides used for neurochemistry lectures, 193?-1963
Other visual items, 1920-1968