Richter, Derek (1907-1995)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/175
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Richter, Derek (1907-1995)
Date(s)	: 1906-1983
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 o/s box
Name of creator(s)	: Richter | Derek | 1907-1995 | neurochemist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Derek Richter was a Neurochemist, responsible for the discovery of monoamine oxidase. After studying chemistry at Oxford, and holding various research posts in Oxford and London, Richter was appointed Director of the Neuropsychiatric Research Centre at Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, in 1947. The Research Centre was funded jointly by the MRC and the Rockefeller Foundation until 1957, when it was taken over by the MRC. In 1960 it moved to Carshalton, Surrey. Richter served on the Central Council of the International Brain Research Organisation and as Secretary General 1972-1977. He was instrumental in establishing the Mental Health Research Fund in 1949, the Journal of Neurochemistry in 1956, the Brain Research Association in 1968, and the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Group for Biological Psychiatry in 1977.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Derek Richter including photocopies of scrapbooks regrading the Neuropsychiatric Research Centre; and a privately published autobiography, (1989). Richter began compiling his albums in 1950. They include photographs of the Research Centre at Cardiff and Carshalton, press cuttings, some correspondence, publications by the Centre and ephemera. The first album includes material relating to the earlier history of the Whitchurch Hospital.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1984 Dr Richter lent the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre his photograph and ephemera albums for selective photocopying. In 1994 he gave a copy of his autobiography.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also Archives and Manuscripts Department, Wellcome Library collections: SA/BRA, SA/MIG, GC/2, 135, 170, 179, 224, 229.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2009.