Title: Jack A. Ackerman collection
Inclusive Dates: 1946 - 1971

Creator:

• Ackerman, Jack S.

Unique Identifier: uac251

Quantity: 0.25 linear feet of manuscript and typed paper documents.

• 0.25 Linear Feet
• One half sized letter document box.

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Madison. University Archives and Records Management

Abstract:

The Jack S. Ackerman papers contain notes and documents created by Jack S. Ackerman, a surgeon and Obstetrician who was the first human subject to test warfarin as a blood anticoagulant. Ackerman's first episode of thrombosis was in 1944. Ackerman began taking warfarin to prevent blood clots in 1946 and lived until 1977. The compounds fundamental in dicoumarol and later warfarin were first synthesized on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1940. Ackerman kept meticulous notes throughout the trial, in which he was both participant and investigator along with his colleague Karl Paul Link. Ackerman's schedules and notes are present in the collection as well as some parcel documents and a lecture given by Link about the synthesis of dicoumarol.

Language: English .

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-ua-uac251

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Gift of Ruth Ackerman, 2023-06-01.

Box [89136403060]   1   folder 1	Warfarin schedules, 1946 - 1971
Box [89136403060]   1   Folder 2	Warfarin parcel statements
Box [89136403060]   1   Folder 3	Art and Science in the Development of Dicumarol lecture notes, April 29th 1960
Box [89136403060]   1   folder 4	Jack S. Ackerman notes