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1918-1994 (Creation)
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- Straker, Stephen
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1.79 cm of textual records and other material
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Born in New York City in 1942, Stephen Straker became a landed immigrant in 1972. Before teaching at UBC, Straker obtained his Ph.D. degree in history of science from Indiana University in 1971: his thesis was entitled Keplers Optics: A Study in the Development of 17th-Century Natural Philosophy. As a professor in the UBC History Department, Straker was regarded as an interdisciplinary, collectively weaving together strands of history, philosophy, and science. He was a founding member of the Arts One program and the Science and Society Group at UBC, and in 2002, Straker was a recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize. Straker, along with Edward Levy and Catherine Crawford, became heavily involved in writing a biography about an internationally acclaimed biochemist, Juda Hirsch Quastel, who came to UBC as the first professor of neurochemistry in 1965. Straker died on July 24, 2004.
Custodial history
The fonds were donated to the University Archives by Darlene Marzari on March 24, 2005.
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The fonds consist of correspondence from 1935-1994; research from 1942-1987; published material from 1905-1996; oral history from 1983-1987; newspaper clippings from 1964-1994; and photographs from 1923-1985.
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Photographs are catalogued as part of the University Archives photograph holdings under UBC 112.1/1. Audio cassette tapes are catalogued as part of the University Archives media holdings under UBC 2941 to 3036. The video cassette tape is also a part of the University Archives media holdings under UBC VT 1064 ‐‐ the photographs, audio and video tapes are stored separately.
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Related records may be found in the Juda Quastel fonds.
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BCAUL control number: UBCARCH-1010
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Includes: 10 photographs, 95 audio cassette tapes, and 1 videocassette tape.