University of Wyoming
Rat concussion experiments -- Film -- 16 mm.
Govons (1912-1981), a neurosurgeon, attended the University of Wyoming from 1930-1933 and received his M.D. from the University of Maryland in 1938. During World War II he was an Army neurosurgeon in the Pacific Theater and later was in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1946-1955, Lansing, Michigan, from 1955-1975 and Palm Desert, California, from 1975-1979. Govons did research on concussions and other head traumas and published a number of studies in medical journals.
Collection contains research files chiefly related to concussion experiments; motion picture film chiefly of concussion experiments on rats; slides; an apparatus used for concussing rats; and miscellaneous other materials.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Sidney R. Govons at the date of processing.
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