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Oral history interview with Frank R. Nissel
- 2002-Mar-20
…you recall what your favorite studies were in high school? NISSEL: Chemistry. I was the lab assistant of a chemistry teacher. That was my avocation …school with me there. TRAYNHAM: Did you graduate with a degree in chemistry from American University? NISSEL: Just in science. They had a science …and the languages he learned. Nissel says that he enjoyed learning chemistry and spending time in the chemistry laboratory in high school. He …
- Interviewee Nissel, Frank R., 1925-2014
- Interviewer Traynham, James G.
- Subject Welex, Inc., Union Carbide Corporation, Nissel, Frank R., 1925-2014, Chemical engineers, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Marvin L. Vestal
- 2010-Mar-03
… a great teacher, but he didn’t like chemistry. But, I guess I learned more chemistry than I thought I did at the …engineering physics…GRAYSON: Yeah, that’s…VESTAL: [There] was some chemistry we took. We took physical chemistry and some advanced physics courses …many of them were superb. But I have very little interaction with chemistry. I took one physical chemistry course, and Dick Müeller, who also…
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Oral history interview with Enrique Iglesia
- 2014-Jan-27 – 2014-Jan-28
…me. So at the same time, he also put me in the advanced placement chemistry. I had not taken the regular chemistry. DOMUSH: Oh, wow. IGLESIA …to convert oxygenates, and they are reinventing aldol condensation chemistry, and we had done all the work on the aldol condensation chemistry …much about molecules, for the most part, because Europe has applied chemistry and technical chemistry, which [are, as disciplines], closer to …
- Interviewee Iglesia, Enrique, 1954-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Subject Iglesia, Enrique, 1954-, Revolution (Cuba : 1959), Catalysis, Exxon Corporation, University of California, Berkeley, Fischer-Tropsch process, Zeolites, Consultants, Chemical engineering, Chemical engineers, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Peter G. Gillespie
- 2001-Aug-01 – 2001-Aug-03
…rather, I never took biology in high school. I took three years of chemistry, which is pretty amazing that there were three years of chemistry …amount of studying required to get by. I mean, the first semester in chemistry was like, "Oh this is great." Three years of chemistry really was …But you know you could, when you graduate with a degree in— Was it chemistry? GILLESPIE: Chemistry. COHEN: Chemistry. You know, you …
- Interviewee Gillespie, Peter G., 1958-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Gillespie, Peter G., 1958-, Neurosciences, Pharmacology, Physiology, Johns Hopkins University, Oregon Health & Science University, Hair cells, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Susan J. Birren
- 2004-Aug-02 – 2004-Aug-04
…service at the university: The job that I ended up getting was in the chemistry department. I worked in the chemistry department. No, I actually worked in a stockroom somewhere, probably in chemistry. Then I ended up doing office work in the chemistry department, and … for nutrition, because it’s organic chemistry. It’s really organic chemistry.” And at that point, for a number …in science and mathematics throughout her early schooling; a female chemistry teacher in high school, with a master’s degree, proved somewhat influential…
- Interviewee Birren, Susan J., 1958-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Women in science, Women molecular biologists, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Birren, Susan J., 1958-, Halobacterium, Metallothionein--Research, Molecular biologists
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Oral history interview with Thomas C. Alber
- 1993-Mar-15
- 1993-Apr-09
- 1993-Jul-16
- 1993-Jul-23
- 1993-Jul-28 – 1993-Jul-29
- 1993-Dec-15
… of traditional--? ALBER: Undergraduate biochemistry. Protein chemistry for graduate students. HATHAWAY: Okay. So the protein chemistry was for straight-out Ph.D. chemistry students who were in the chemistry department, and not in the biochemistry … the chemistry and biology departments. HATHAWAY: And it was the--? Usually …University. his research experience solidified his future interests in chemistry and biochemistry over other fields, such as the history of science…
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Oral history interview with Manfred Frasch
- 1998-Dec-17 – 1998-Dec-19
…which I was quite interested in, but not quite as much as biology and chemistry. MAESTREJUAN: What was it about biology and chemistry that you …The first years were more traditional training--a lot of inorganic chemistry and analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, making substances. Just … in the chemistry faculty. But really it was completely outside of that program, and…
- Interviewee Frasch, Manfred, 1954-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Frasch, Manfred, 1954-, Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Genetics, Mesoderm, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Drosophila, Genetic regulation, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Anirvan Ghosh
- 2004-Feb-02 – 2002-Feb-03
…miles south of New Delhi. The reason I was there is that my dad is a chemistry professor and he taught at the Indian Institute of Technology in …family’s from. My dad grew up in Calcutta, and he went on to study chemistry. He became a professor of chemistry and now is retired. … okay, this is physics, this is the kind of thing they do; this is chemistry; and this is biology. Both physics and chemistry had really interesting…
- Interviewee Ghosh, Anirvan
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Ghosh, Anirvan, Education, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.), Molecular neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, Minorities in science, Gordon Research Conferences, Neuroscientists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Alison E. M. Adams
- 1996-Feb-12 – 1996-Feb-14
… a lot of why I liked it was because I liked the chemistry teacher a lot. He was fun, and chemistry was interesting to me. My …hadn't changed at that time, I wouldn't have been able to change from chemistry. I would have been stuck in chemistry. So I could see that I wasn't … a bit of chemistry and physics. In my last two years I did nothing but genetics. So …
- Interviewee Adams, Alison E. M., 1955-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Biochemistry, Women biochemists, Women in science, Cancer--Research, Biochemistry--Research, Adams, Alison E. M., 1955-, Cytology, Immunofluorescence, Molecular biology, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Jonathan D. Goldberg
- 2003-Dec-26
- 2003-Dec-30
- 2004-Jan-05
…entirely the direction that I would then go in. I wasn’t interested in chemistry, although I was taking it. Biology, I guess I enjoyed the biology …molecular-level aspects of biology. In a sense, it was the interface of chemistry and biology, except I had no interest in the chemistry. This was …lessons quite a bit more interesting than the other two—the maths and chemistry—that I was involved in. VAN BENSCHOTEN: Were there any special…
- Interviewee Goldberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1967-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Goldberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1967-, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Proteins--Structure, X-ray crystallography, Rockefeller University, Cell interaction, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Work-life balance, Employment in foreign countries
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Oral history interview with Athan Kuliopulos
- 2002-Dec-02 – 2002-Dec-04
…placement. I took the hardest classes you could think of. Chemistry. I did very well in chemistry, but again, it was just, you know, …but didn’t really like quantum mechanics. There’s a lot of physical chemistry in chemistry, so I said, “You know, maybe I’ll stick with biology and just take a lot of chemistry,” which I did. I think I took fifteen chemistry courses in college …while in junior high and spending time trying to make gunpowder as a chemistry experiment. In high school, Kuliopolos's biology teacher, Robert …
- Interviewee Kuliopulos, Athan, 1961-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kuliopulos, Athan, 1961-, Biochemistry, Enzyme kinetics, Vitamin K, New England Medical Center Hospital, Tufts University, G proteins, G proteins--Receptors, Blood--Coagulation, Cell interaction, Medical scientists, Geneticists
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Oral history interview with Makoto Kuro-o
- 2006-Mar-06 – 2006-Mar-08
… I'm interested in science rather than literature. Yes, science or chemistry or physics or something like that. I don't know why. My father was …father is great. [laughs] I had a little bit of the favor of science or chemistry, physics, or such kind of area. MEJIA: Even before high school? …impressive for me. One taught physics [Mr. Takahashi] and the other taught chemistry [Mr. Yoneyama]. Actually, I don't remember very well about what he…
- Interviewee Kuro-o, Makoto, 1960-
- Interviewer Mejia, Robin
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kuro-o, Makoto, 1960-, Cardiology, Genetics, Gene expression, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Aging--Prevention, Kidneys--Diseases, Molecular biologists, Geneticists, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with John Sondek
- 2006-Mar-27 – 2006-Mar-29
… class, chemistry. But, no, I think it was all classes. Except for like industrial …white hair and a white beard, and he was very dynamic and he was the chemistry teacher. Well, it was one of these chemistry classes which was very … that stuff, and that was the stuff that was being learned in that chemistry. I can’t even remember, it might have been like ninth-grade chemistry…
- Interviewee Sondek, John, 1963-
- Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Sondek, John, 1963-, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Medical scientists, Proteins--Research, Proteins, Protein folding, Cellular signal transduction, G proteins
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Oral history interview with Reatha Clark King
- 2005-May-01
…the study of chemistry could be. But I fell in love with the laboratory, the chemistry …I’ve ever had because he then observed his chemistry majors. By that time I had changed my major to chemistry, under …separate and it had a lot of majors. BROWN: And Chemistry, there was a chemistry major at Clark? KING: Yes. BROWN…
- Interviewee King, Reatha Clark, 1938-
- Interviewer Brown, Jeannette E.
- Subject King, Reatha Clark, 1938-, Chemistry, Women in chemistry, United States. National Bureau of Standards, United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency, City University of New York, Metropolitan State University, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, General Mills Foundation, African American women, African American women chemists, Scientists, Black
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Oral history interview with Harold J. Read
- 1995-Mar-22
… through a little bit of your childhood and where your interest in chemistry developed. READ: All right. My father, who had developed a …interest in electrochemistry started, not surprisingly, in the course in chemistry that I had in this high school, whose laboratory was better equipped …those days Illinois required a thesis for this degree, at least in chemistry—I went around to Dr. Swann to see if he had something that would …
- Interviewee Read, Harold J. (Harold James), 1911-1999
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Electrochemical Society, Chemists, Read, Harold J. (Harold James), 1911-1999, Metallurgy, Chemists--Biography
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Oral history interview with Lubert Stryer
- 2008-Dec-03 – 2008-Dec-04
…just a normal part of taking a very strong science program. I took chemistry, and my chemistry professor was Harold [C.] Urey. But it wasn't just …doing experimental work. At that time, I got a joint appointment in chemistry, and I had space over in chemistry. One of my first students was … hobbies as a child, including baseball, writing, photography, and chemistry.…
- Interviewee Stryer, Lubert, 1938-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Stryer, Lubert, 1938-, DNA--Research, Spectrum analysis, Peptides--Conformation, Proteins, Proteins--Structure, Molecular spectroscopy, X-ray spectroscopy, Nuclear excitation, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Theodore S. Jardetzky
- 2002-Jun-03 – 2002-Jun-05
…also doing well in math and science, so throughout high school I did chemistry, and then, you know, placed—scored—really well on the chemistry AP …understand. And then at the same time I was taking all of the chemistry courses—basic chemistry courses, organic chemistry—not really liking …work. Because in organic chemistry you learn how all these small molecules can be brought together to…
- Interviewee Jardetzky, Theodore, 1960-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Jardetzky, Theodore, 1960-, Acetylcholine--Receptors, Universität Frankfurt am Main. Biozentrum, Enzyme kinetics, Major histocompatibility complex, Proteins, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), Immune response, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Immunologists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Ken W. Y. Cho
- 1999-Jun-03 – 1999-Jun-04
- 1999-Jun-07
…reactions. So for a long time--I think, from high school--I was into chemistry, and in college I decided to become a chemistry major. So I was trained …chemistry. So I pretty much, in the first year, chemistry-wise, just needed …medical school too, especially in the science sector. I mean, I was a chemistry major, but even in the chemistry major, we had a 60 to 70 percent…
- Interviewee Cho, Ken W. Y., 1956-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Cho, Ken W. Y., 1956-, Homeobox genes, Genetic engineering, Cytology, University of California, Irvine, Embryology, Drosophila, Xenopus, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with George C. Prendergast
- 2000-Dec-11 – 2000-Dec-13
…definitely was interested in when I was younger. I had all the sort of chemistry kits and microscopes and weather forecast kits, and if there was … sludge. So we had learned during the year some kinds of inorganic chemistry and analytical chemistry methods and that was the final project. …would have left Yale, but might not have ended up at Princeton. Their chemistry department was very strong in physical chemistry and was much more…
- Interviewee Prendergast, George C., 1961-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Prendergast, George C., 1961-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Neurobiology, Pharmaceutical industry, Chemical industry
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Oral history interview with James R. Fair
- 1992-Feb-19
…course that I took at The Citadel if I made a good grade in Physical Chemistry. I plunged into Physical Chemistry at Georgia Tech. I was … second semester of physical chemistry, which is heavily oriented toward quantum chemistry, at least at … probably be better off with that one than with the other physical chemistry, but I’d hate to see them lose that physical chemistry. How do you…
- Interviewee Fair, James R., 1920-
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Chemical engineering, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.), Fair, James R., 1920-, University of Texas at Austin, Disasters, Shell Development Company, Texas--Texas City, Ethylene, High Flyer (Ship), Grandcamp (Ship), Chemical engineers, Styrene, Fires, Monsanto Chemical Company
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Oral history interview with Lynn Cooley
- 1996-Mar-04 – 1996-Mar-05
- 1996-Mar-07
… got to high school. I think my favorite course in high school was chemistry. I should have liked biology, but I had a pretty poor biology teacher so I was mostly bored in that class. But I really liked chemistry and I really liked algebra and calculus. Those were the ones that … analytical chemistry and inorganic chemistry that I had to struggle with. …not a genetic predisposition, to science. In high school she liked chemistry and mathematics courses best and finished all of those available …
- Interviewee Cooley, Lynn, 1955-
- Interviewer Meldrum, Marcia L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Women molecular biologists, Geneticists, Women geneticists, Women in medicine, Women in science, Women medical scientists, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Cytology--Research, Molecular biology--Research, Cooley, Lynn, 1955-
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Oral history interview with Philip B. Wedegaertner
- 2003-Jun-08
- 2003-Jun-10 – 2003-Jun-11
…Stockton, California. And he’s been there ever since as an organic chemistry professor. He just was at a banquet where he’s the longest … of teaching. It’s mainly a teaching university, but the chemistry department is the only department there, I think, that, at least …, organo-metallic chemistry. VAN BENSCHOTEN: How would you describe his temperament, his…
- Interviewee Wedegaertner, Philip B., 1964-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Wedegaertner, Philip B., 1964-, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Molecular biologists, Medical scientists, Epidermal growth factor, Proteins--Research
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Oral history interview with Bruce A. Hamilton
- 2005-Oct-05 – 2005-Oct-07
…was, I think, common among the science curricula of that school. Our chemistry class did the same thing. They gave you a bottle of some inky-looking …just a lively character and very scholarly. Then the chemistry teacher, who also taught us calculus in high school, was a Caltech …chances. Should I take graduate courses or should I take more courses in chemistry or what should I do?” As a mark of my naïveté at the…
- Interviewee Hamilton, Bruce A., 1964-
- Interviewer Mejia, Robin
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Hamilton, Bruce A., 1964-, Science--Study and teaching, Religion, Genetics, Lander, Eric S., Neurogenetics, University of California, San Diego, Zinn, Kai George, Medical scientists, Neuroscientists
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Oral history interview with Jane E. Koehler
- 2001-Mar-02 – 2001-Mar-04
…masters and then his Ph.D. COHEN: In what? KOEHLER: In soil chemistry, soil science. He then got a job in Missouri, and that's where he …well, they were pushing or whatever, but what happened was organic chemistry had been a real— They made us take organic as freshmen actually, … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 65, 69, 75, 107, 112 Chemistry Organic Chemistry, 15, 16 Soil Chemistry, 2 Chomel, Dr. Bruno …
- Interviewee Koehler, Jane E., 1953-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Koehler, Jane E., 1953-, Autoimmune thyroiditis, Microbiology, Women in science, Communicable diseases, Angiomatosis, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, Bartonella, Women in medicine, Clinical medicine--Research, Molecular biologists, Women molecular biologists
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