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Oral history interview with Donald L. Katz
- 1986-Aug-22
…know it yet?" As an eleventh grader I was very much interested in chemistry. I enjoyed chemistry with Mr. Newark, who later became a teacher …1929 and 1930, and I guess it was in the latter that I took physical chemistry. I took physical chemistry laboratory from Professor Lee Case and …described each experiment to me on the board, and then I liked physical chemistry very much. I had taken my general chemistry with Professor Hodges…
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Oral history interview with Wilbur I. Kaye
- 2002-Feb-11 (First session)
- 2002-Feb-27 (Second session)
…and instrumentation and his education, which culminated in a PhD in chemistry at the University of Illinois. Kaye took a position at Tennessee …your pre-college education, and the beginnings of your interest in chemistry. KAYE: As I read the book you sent to me on Dr. [Arnold O.] …chemicals and blowing up everything. Through college my major was chemistry. My mentor was Dr. John F. Conn. After graduation from Stetson …
- Interviewee Kaye, Wilbur I. (Wilbur Irving), 1922-2006
- Interviewer Gallwas, Gerald E., Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Instrument manufacture, Chemists, Kaye, Wilbur I. (Wilbur Irving), 1922-2006, Chemists--Biography, Tennessee Eastman Company, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Oral history interview with William C. Sha
- 2003-Aug-04 – 2003-Aug-06
…MAESTREJUAN: At the University of Chicago, what was the program like in chemistry? You published a lot in, say, physical or inorganic chemistry, but how broad did the chemistry department go in terms of besides organic, biological chemistry? …yesterday, I wanted to ask why didn’t you continue in the field of chemistry? SHA: I think chemistry and then the work I did at Argonne National …Sha matriculated at the University of Chicago, where he majored in chemistry and worked with Stephen Lee in Jeremy K. Burdett's laboratory. While…
- Interviewee Sha, William C., 1962-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Sha, William C., 1962-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Immunology, Immune response--Regulation, T cells, B cells
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Oral history interview with Mark D. Fleming
- 2007-Oct-01 – 2007-Oct-03
…t particularly care that you came up with the exact chemistry, but rather you came up with a chemistry [that could be reasonably …trying to make…to be at that interface between […] not just biology and chemistry, but also between medicine, biology, and chemistry. I think he was …FLEMING: Sure. So as I said I was interested in this interface between chemistry and biology at the time and how do you use chemistry to address questions…
- Interviewee Fleming, Mark D., 1965-
- Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Fleming, Mark D., 1965-, Pathology, Pathology--Research, Children's Hospital (Boston, Mass.), Harvard School of Public Health, University of Oxford, Pathologists
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Oral history interview with James R. Lupski
- 1995-Aug-14 – 1995-Aug-16
…to do things that way. In my first year, I just found that I liked chemistry a lot better than biology, so chemistry was what I chose. I hadn't … this new lab, or how did they come to get you--? The organic chemistry? LUPSKI: In the organic chemistry? That was my professor. It … and a cytogenetics lab course. My second year I had organic chemistry lab courses. My third year I took physical chemistry lab courses.…
- Interviewee Lupski, James R., 1957-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Lupski, James R., 1957-, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Chess, Neural receptors, Molecular cloning, Genetic disorders, Medical genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
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Oral history interview with Boris Magasanik
- 1993 – 1995 (In three sessions)
… year. But I got intrigued with chemistry, and then perhaps another influence was that my uncle, my father’ …Agricultural Research Institute in Rehovot. So getting intrigued with chemistry and having some sort of family connection with chemistry, I think … two semesters of physics, two of mathematics, and one semester of chemistry. One version of it is taught by the Chemistry Department and one…
- Interviewee Magasanik, Boris, 1919-2013
- Interviewer Schlesinger, Sondra
- Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biochemists, Magazanik, Boris, 1919-2013, Harvard Medical School, Columbia University
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Oral history interview with Andrew C. Chan
- 2000-Apr-17 – 2000-Apr-18
- 2000-Apr-20
…a chemistry major, and again, I was-- My interest in research was actually also … class. Organic chemistry is a similar thing, just one scale less. COHEN: Right. Okay, so …science from an early age and discusses being specifically drawn toward chemistry in high school.…
- Interviewee Chan, Andrew Chee-Yuen, 1959-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Chan, Andrew Chee-Yuen, 1959-, Immunologists, Medical scientists, Immunology--Research, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine, Minorities in science, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Rheumatology, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Maxine Savitz
- 2021-Jul-01
- 2021-Jul-08
…equally split, and she recalls fondly a husband and wife team in the chemistry department, Ernst and Frances Berliner. She decided on a chemistry …that’s society . . . . But I started off taking [courses in] math and chemistry and then physics, biology and then the advanced chemistry and the …get a degree, I’m going to go teach chemistry”? Did think to yourself, “I’m going to get a degree in chemistry,…
- Interviewee Savitz, Maxine L. (Maxine Lazarus), 1937-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger)
- Subject Maryland--Baltimore, Bryn Mawr College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fuel cells--Research, Science and state, Garrett Corporation, Allied-Signal Inc., Honeywell Inc., National Academy of Engineering, Executive advisory bodies, Women in science, Engineers
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Oral history interview with Norman Hackerman
- 1995-Feb-08
…sense of the less pragmatic publications. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, at that time, was called the Journal of Physical and Colloid Chemistry …spread and has tentacles all over. It is a great part of analytical chemistry and it is an increasing part of organic chemistry. It is concerned …, 21 Johns Hopkins University, 1 Journal of Physical and Colloid Chemistry, 7, 9 Journal of Physical Chemistry, The, 5, 7 Journal of the American…
- Interviewee Hackerman, Norman
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject American Electrochemical Society, Electrochemistry--Societies, etc., Chemists, Chemists--Biography, Hackerman, Norman
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Oral history interview with Alan J. Heeger
- 2006-Mar-13
- 2006-Mar-16
…graduate school and pursue physics. I actually did take one course in chemistry, first-year Elementary Chemistry, but nothing beyond that. That … we would do it, I didn’t know much about it so I had to learn the chemistry from scratch. Tony Garito had a background in chemistry and knew …the LRSM, I was certainly aware of him, but his focus was on silicon chemistry. He was really interested in the silicon chemistry, and he’d almost…
- Interviewee Heeger, Alan J.
- Interviewer Mody, Cyrus C. M.
- Sponsor Center for Nanotechnology in Society
- Subject Heeger, Alan J., Theoretical physics, University of Pennsylvania, Spin waves--Mathematical models, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Université de Genève, Conducting polymers, University of California, Santa Barbara, Physicists, MacDiarmid, Alan G., 1927-2007
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Oral history interview with Helen M. Berman
- 2000-Feb-11
…wound up going to Barnard College in New York City, where I majored in chemistry. After my second year at Barnard, I was fortunate enough to get …example, there’s an IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] nomenclature for proteins and nucleic acids. The PDB follows the …Crystallography [IUCr], 9, 11 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry [IUPAC], 14 J Jeffrey, George A., 1 Jensen, Lyle H., 7 K …
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Oral history interview with Karin M. Reinisch
- 2008-Nov-10 – 2008-Nov-11
…apply and say you know I want to be a physics major or I want to be a chemistry major. REINISCH: No. No, I was a chemistry major. You didn …them. REINISCH: The very first course that I took was a general chemistry course, called Chem 10. It was probably the most intense chemistry …two tracks. It had [a for-med-students] track and then it had the chemistry track for chemists. This was a chemistry track for chemists. …
- Interviewee Reinisch, Karin M., 1966-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Reinisch, Karin M., 1966-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Cytology, Reoviruses
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Oral history interview with David W. Golde
- 1999-Dec-15
… Dickinson University in New Jersey and got a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. I graduated almost a year early, and so I worked as a coffee chemist …the clinical pathology program. One had to choose among hematology, chemistry, or microbiology. I chose hematology and even though at medical …which was stimulated by his biology teacher. He received his B. S. in chemistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1962. He then attended medical…
- Interviewee Golde, David W., 1940-2004
- Interviewer Wolfe, Audra J.
- Subject Biochemists, Biology, Microbiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Biochemistry, Golde, David W., 1940-2004, Cornell University, University of California, Los Angeles. School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. School of Medicine, Virology, Virology--Research, Microbiologists
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Oral history interview with Ellen Puré
- 1989-Aug-21
…course that was most influential, though, and I did start college as a chemistry major, was chemistry. And again, I loved the course, did extremely … So that was it. I went to Wash U and I did my first year as a chemistry major. And I actually had a fantastic advisor and loved inorganic chemistry, but I started to think that even though I loved math and chemistry …had good lab science programs for undergraduates. She started as a chemistry major but switched to biology after a class with David Kirk. As a…
- Interviewee Puré, Ellen, 1957-
- Interviewer Kohler, Robert, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Puré, Ellen, 1957-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Medical scientists, Immunology, T cells, Immunoglobulins
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Oral history interview with Vincent A. Calarco
- 2000-Nov-29
…with twenty-one credits at a college level with calculus, physics, chemistry, drafting, English, and German—I was just telling my sons the story …that was there was another order of magnitude. But I enjoyed chemistry in high school. To be very honest about it, that was probably how …felt that the engineering element of it was more practical than the chemistry side of it, I was probably driven more by the idea that I would get…
- Interviewee Calarco, Vincent A. 1942-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Sponsor Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain). American Section
- Subject Calarco, Vincent A., 1942-, Procter & Gamble Company, U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Ballistics and Weapons Concepts Division, NL Industries, Uniroyal Chemical, Crompton & Knowles Corporation, Chemical engineering, Chemical engineers
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Oral history interview with Kai Zinn
- 1994-Sep-14
- 1994-Sep-21
- 1994-Sep-27
- 1994-Oct-04
…Berkeley, and my father [John Zinn] was a graduate student in physical chemistry at UC [University of California] Berkeley at the time. My mother …was first there and then later sort of moved over to do atmospheric chemistry, which is pretty much what he does now. He just retired a couple …what I ended up doing. You didn't take the biology majors' organic chemistry. We did quantum mechanics in organic chemistry. So that's why I decided…
- Interviewee Zinn, Kai, 1955-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Zinn, Kai, 1955-, Molecular biologists, Geneticists, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Genetics--Research, Molecular biology--Research
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Oral history interview with Charles K. Barlowe
- 2002-Oct-07 – 2002-Oct-09
…took some organic chemistry courses and advanced organic chemistry courses that I hadn't taken … grew out of organic chemistry. It was a discipline, or a subdiscipline, of organic chemistry that …don't know that it's run into a wall. There's still new chemistry to be discovered, but I think a lot of the chemistry that's being…
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Oral history interview with Pamela Jane Bjorkman
- 1990-Mar-06
…I found chemistry to be actually somewhat harder for me, so I thought it would be a … research that related to biological systems, and so the chemistry departments…I did apply to some chemistry departments, but the one at Harvard, I didn’t apply to the chemistry department at Harvard. They are strong in organic synthesis and stuff …was a housewife. Bjorkman became interested in science when she took chemistry and physics in high school. She attended Willamette University for…
- Interviewee Bjorkman, Pamela Jane, 1956
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sawyer, Richard
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Davis, Mark, 1954-, Major histocompatibility complex, Bjorkman, Pamela Jane, 1956, X-ray crystallography, T cells--Research, Women in science--Social aspects, Women in science--Research, Biologists, Molecular biologists
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Oral history interview with Hoyt C. Hottel
- 1985-Nov-18 (First session)
- 1985-Dec-02 (Second session)
…interview by discussing his early education and interest in rubber chemistry, and how both factored in to his decision to attend Indiana University for chemistry and Massachusetts Institute of Technology for chemical engineering … a good chemistry department. It later became very good, especially in physical chemistry … High School. Hottel discusses his entry into Indiana University's chemistry program at age 15 and courses and professors there, before turning…
- Interviewee Hottel, Hoyt C. (Hoyt Clarke), 1903-1998
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Combustion, Heat--Transmission, Hottel, Hoyt C. (Hoyt Clarke), 1903-1998, Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957, Incendiary bombs, Chemical engineers, Combustion engineering, Cabot, Godfrey L. (Godfrey Lowell), 1861-1962, Solar energy
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Oral history interview with Bradley B. Olwin
- 1994-Nov-30
- 1994-Dec-01 – 1994-Dec-03
…all science. But I also remember being very interested in getting a chemistry kit, and probably [like] with all young kids that get chemistry kits …lecturer. In that one lecture, he motivated me to change my major to chemistry, because I thought this is what chemistry was about, and also made …something I enjoyed, and it was something I dealt with in college as a chemistry major and enjoyed tremendously, so I was very happy being a chemistry…
- Interviewee Olwin, Bradley B., 1957-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Olwin, Bradley B., 1957-, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Pharmacology, Calmodulin, Cytology, Fibroblast growth factors
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Oral history interview with Martyn D. Goulding
- 2001-Jan-09 – 2001-Jan-11
…science. And as I said, initially I was thinking that maybe I'd do chemistry. You know, if I wasn't going to do medicine, then I would do chemistry … something about chemicals, so it was kind of synthetic organic chemistry. So in some ways, the questions were not at all clear to me what … 82 Cell, 86, 88 Cell Fate, 79 Cell Growth, 36 Cell Lines, 37 Chemistry, 23, 24 Organic Chemistry, 24, 42 China, Tuna, 47 Choi, Brian,…
- Interviewee Goulding, Martyn D., 1958-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Goulding, Martyn D., 1958-, Religion, Cyclic adenylic acid, Tumors, Cells--Growth--Regulation, Oncogenes, University of California, San Diego, Transcription factors, Interneurons, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Dennis A. Carson
- 2006-Mar-12
…them. When I was a fifth grader in biology, my parents let me have a chemistry laboratory in the basement and they signed off on a permit so that …end of junior high and the beginning of high school. I always loved chemistry and biology. I think it was just genetic. EVERSON: It must …, I fixed that part of my skills. But I still hung out around the chemistry lab. I was a chemistry lab instructor in college, but not a chemistry…
- Interviewee Carson, Dennis A., 1936, Everson, Ted
- Subject National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Radioactive tracers, Seegmiller, J. E., University of California, San Diego, Immune system, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, Leukemia, Hairy cell, Biotechnology industries, Cancer--Treatment--Research, Carson, Dennis A., 1936-, Microbiologists, Biochemists
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Oral history interview with Joshua M. Kaplan
- 1999-Jun-22 – 1999-Jun-24
…Yup. COHEN: How did you decide on biochem? KAPLAN: I hated chemistry. I started off as a chemistry major, and the quality of teaching was terrible--with the exception of freshman chemistry, which was very good. But the minute you got beyond freshman chemistry …really know. But that was my mind-set going into college; I thought a chemistry major would be good. I told you I took this strategy to heart--of …research. Kaplan attended Yale University, where he declared a major in chemistry but would later switch to biochemistry, working in Charles A. Janeway's…
- Interviewee Kaplan, Joshua M., 1960-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kaplan, Joshua M., 1960-, Biochemistry, Immunology, Cancer--Research, Genetics, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Caenorhabditis elegans, Cellular signal transduction, Central nervous system, Work-life balance, Biochemists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Mildred Cohn
- 1987-Dec-15 (First session)
- 1988-Jan-06 (Second session)
…. After giving the usual course in chemistry, any student who wanted to study more advanced chemistry could take … interested in chemistry. I then went on and took organic chemistry. I also studied physics …first year. I had two women teachers, one for each semester of general chemistry. After that all my chemistry professors were men. I had a professor…
- Interviewee Cohn, Mildred, 1913-2009
- Interviewer Gortler, Leon B.
- Subject Women biochemists, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.), Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Du Vigneaud, Vincent, 1901-1978, Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School, Cornell University, Women chemists, Cohn, Mildred, 1913-2009, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society of Biological Chemists, Women in science, Biochemists, George Washington University
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Oral history interview with Theo Colborn
- 2009-Aug-07 – 2009-Aug-08
… see? COLBORN: Well, okay. Well, first of all we went into a chemistry lab, you know, the chemistry lab, oh, exciting. Everything, everything …who interviewed me was very nice and said, “Well, have you had any chemistry?” I said, “Oh, yes. I’ve had a year of college chemistry.” But that …around the environmental issues, and this is the same time that green chemistry is being established, the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge …
- Interviewee Colborn, Theo
- Interviewer Roberts, Jody A., McDonnell, Elizabeth A.
- Subject Colborn, Theo, Pharmacists, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment, Ozone, Great Lakes, Endocrine disrupting chemicals, Science--Social aspects, Science and state, Washington (D.C.)