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The Urdang Medal (1952) is awarded, through an annual international competition, for "distinguished pharmaco-historical writing". |
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Titlepage: Kremers' and Urdang's History of Pharmacy. Fourth edition, revised by Glenn Sonnedecker. Philadelphia 1976
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Here Sonnedecker discusses some rare pharmacy books with Peter Stechl, a
German doctorand student (1969)
(Stechl, Peter: "Biological Standardization of Drugs before 1928", Madison 1969) |
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Upon the death of Urdang, his family conveyed the contents of his study at home to the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy to create a workplace known as the "Urdang Room". Shown at work there (1969) is Urdang's successor as a director of the AIHP. |
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In Madison (1999), Professor-emeritus Glenn Sonnedecker (at right) acquaints Holger Goetzendorff of Germany with the structure of a 700-drawer pharmaco-historical file, where many of the Urdang documents reproduced in this booklet were found |
