Search Results
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Oral history interview with Sol Rosenblatt
- 2015-Sep-30
- 2015-Oct-22
…mix—and I made my own little fireworks, so I was interested in what chemistry does, rather than what chemistry is, you know? BERRY: [Yes … unfortunately, it’s not being taught in school, was the beauty of chemistry, and what chemistry could do. The lectures that you get in chemistry … chemistry. Yes. I had an academic view of urethane chemistries. And there was…
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Oral history interview with David A. Brenner
- 1990-Jun-20
- 2009-Mar-10 – 2009-Mar-11
… of chemistry. I found that particularly striking. I was a chemistry major in college. I have a master’s degree in chemistry. I loved chemistry, I loved my courses; whereas the idea of taking … none of my other friends in chemistry could do that because… BRENNER: Right, because they were so …and he chose Yale University as a good school for biology. He found chemistry static and dull, but biology was burgeoning. After his junior year…
- Interviewee Brenner, David A., 1953-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Domush, Hilary, Sawyer, Richard
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Brenner, David A., 1953-, University of California, San Diego, Liver--Diseases, San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gastroenterology--Periodicals, Columbia University, Molecular biologists
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Oral history interview with Kun Ping Lu
- 2005-Aug-03 – 2005-Aug-05
… them, paid us. So I continued very good at math, physics, chemistry, but still did very poorly in literature and Chinese language. …countryside and the villages. So since I was good at math and chemistry and physics and these teachers actually often invited me to go to …prepared you. We talked about the physics and math teachers. What about chemistry? LU: Chemistry, actually, one of teachers was a local teacher…
- Interviewee Lu, Kun Ping, 1963-
- Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Lu, Kun Ping, 1963-, Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976), Cells--Growth--Regulation, Cytology, Biochemistry, Emigration and immigration, Baylor College of Medicine, Cell interaction, Aspergillus, Harvard Medical School, Alzheimer's disease
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Oral history interview with Martin D. Snider
- 1990-Mar-08
…in high school. I cannot draw up a mental picture of my high school chemistry teacher, that’s for sure. I had good teachers, but I wouldn’t say …Conversations with this woman—she was, I guess, an assistant professor in the chemistry department at Brown—it was really her influence that directed me … the Golgi complex in cultured human cells,” Journal of Biological Chemistry 264 (1989): 7675-7680. --------------- ----------------------…
- Interviewee Snider, Martin D., 1952-
- Interviewer Morrissette, Naomi, Kohler, Robert
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Snider, Martin D., 1952-, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Membranes (Biology), Glycoproteins, Glycoproteins--Synthesis, Proteins--Research
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Oral history interview with David D. Ginty
- 2003-Sep-02 – 2003-Sep-04
… program than chemistry; there were very few chemistry majors. And, frankly, the only thing …not too much. For a couple of years I was a technician in an organic chemistry lab, and that was not because I particularly liked organic chemistry …first principles of biology—change, as opposed to say, physics and chemistry, and even chemistry that some of these first principles just haven't…
- Interviewee Ginty, David D., 1962-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Ginty, David D., 1962-, Religious education, Nervous system, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine, Nerve growth factor, Neurons--Growth, Neuroscientists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Seung K. Kim
- 2006-Mar-09
- 2006-Mar-16 – 2006-Mar-17
…encapsulated them, formulated them. So my mother was interested in chemistry, and so she pursued pharmacy. Now, at the time they … When I was in eleventh grade, I came back after reading some chemistry textbooks in the summer, just beginning chemistry. I was curious about what chemistry was, and oddly enough, I actually had a revelation when we were going …began to discover experimentation, one summer designing for himself a chemistry experiment to work on when he began school in the fall. He talks …
- Interviewee Kim, Seung K., 1963-
- Interviewer Mejia, Robin
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kim, Seung K., 1963-, Korean War (1950-1953), Vietnam War (1961-1975), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Biochemistry, Cell interaction, Oncology, Pancreas, Developmental biology, Minorities in science, Work-life balance, Biochemists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Kazuo Inamori
- 2010-Apr-19
- 2010-Nov-13
…I had just read some books on chemistry, and I ran that experiment all on my own. When I entered … to a good career and job? Or did you decide to major in organic chemistry because you just loved chemistry? WATKINS: 19??????????????? …department. Because my original desire was to develop drugs by majoring in chemistry, I majored in organic chemistry. By the way, after the war the petrochemical…
- Interviewee Inamori, Kazuo, 1932-
- Interviewer Tritton, Thomas R., Ulrych, Richard
- Subject Inamori, Kazuo, 1932-, Chemistry, Organic, Shortwave radio, Kyōto Seramikku Kabushiki Kaisha, Matsushita Denki Sangyō, International business enterprises, Electric insulators and insulation, Fairchild (Firm), Telecommunication, Inamori Zaidan, Industrial management, Case Western Reserve University, Chemical engineers
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Oral history interview with Michael C. Carroll
- 1990-Mar-04
…Scripps it would have been the same problem. That was a big protein chemistry lab. There were no molecular biologists there. Reading … into sequencing of DNA that gave him his second [Nobel] Prize [in Chemistry, 1980]. I’d never really met someone like George Brownlee … a joint appointment. I also had a joint appointment in biological chemistry, which is a basic science department, because I have a non-clinical…
- Interviewee Carroll, Michael C. 1945-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sawyer, Richard
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Carroll, Michael C., 1945-, Capra, J. Donald, 1937-, Porter, R. R. (Rodney Robert), 1917-1985, Children's Hospital (Boston, Mass.), Harvard Medical School, Major histocompatibility complex, Finance, Religion and science, Molecular cloning, Immunologists
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Oral history interview with Michael D. Sheets
- 2004-Mar-29 – 2004-Mar-30
… So I had no concept about that. VAN BENSCHOTEN: How about a chemistry set? Did you have one? SHEETS: I think I did at one point, …it is a position—at San Francisco General Hospital, pharmaceutical chemistry. SHEETS: Right. So that’s my association with the Marks lab.…
- Interviewee Sheets, Michael D., 1969-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Sheets, Michael D., 1969-, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Medical scientists, Genetics, Genetic regulation, Gene expression, Vertebrates--Development
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Oral history interview with Pradip Raychaudhuri
- 1997-Nov-01 – 1997-Nov-02
… get your master's. It is then you-- For example, I had a major in chemistry, so I learned a lot of chemistry. I learned organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, basically all types of chemistry, but I did not specialize in any … to organic chemistry or another branch of chemistry? RAYCHAUDHURI: You're right, and …
- Interviewee Raychaudhuri, Pradip, 1958-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Raychaudhuri, Pradip, 1958-, Medicine--Research, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Enzymology, Cancer--Research, Antioncogenes, Proteins--Research, Drug resistance in cancer cells, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Ray H. Boundy
- 1986-Aug-21
…, taught physical chemistry when I was there. Later on he was head of the chemistry department …? BOUNDY: He taught organic chemistry and general chemistry and either qualitative or quantitative analysis. He also taught food chemistry, we had a course in food chemistry. BOHNING: That's unusual.…
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Oral history interview with Irvin I. Rubin
- 2002-Feb-26
…your brother? RUBIN: My brother has a Ph.D. in theoretical physical chemistry, and he was a teacher in the graduate school at the Polytechnical … City College for four years, and graduated in 1938 with a B.S. in chemistry. It was a remarkable education, because at that time City College …and tested it with Texas water, which was recirculated repeatedly. Chemistry 101 tells you that the chlorine will boil out very quickly. In effect…
- Interviewee Rubin, Irvin I., 1919-
- Interviewer Traynham, James G.
- Subject Rubin, Irvin I., 1919-, Chemists, Robinson Plastics Corporation, Injection molding of plastics, Chemists--Biography
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Oral history interview with Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
- 2004-Apr-19 – 2004-Apr-20
… happen to have a chemistry set? SOLNICA-KREZEL: Yes, we did something, but first of all, we wouldn't have like a chemistry set in Poland sold in the shops. It was more homemade types of experiments … in chemistry very well. I'd never done an experiment on my own. We could only …
- Interviewee Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Women in science, Women in medicine, Mutagenesis, Cytoskeleton, Physarum polycephalum, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Barbara Panning
- 2008-Aug-27 – 2008-Aug-28
…do. I was already pretty clear I wanted to do something biology- or chemistry-related going into high school. DOMUSH: Oh, already going into high …course. The second year you could try taking mainly biology courses and chemistry courses., and by third and fourth year you're in--even within biology …contributes to silencing of the X chromosome." Journal of Biological Chemistry 282 (2007): 1285-1289. …
- Interviewee Panning, Barbara, 1963-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Panning, Barbara, 1963-, Women in science, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Biochemists, X chromosome, Cytology, DNA--Research, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Beverly M. Emerson
- 1992-Dec-16
- 1992-Dec-18
- 1992-Dec-21
- 1993-Jan-28
…the heart. Here's the liver." So actually I was more interested in chemistry. I was too dumb to be very good in chemistry, but I really appreciated …how did you know that this would--? EMERSON: Well, I'd taken chemistry in high school. I was pretty mediocre, but that was a system that … literature-- I didn't take chemistry books home at night to read. I read philosophy and literature. That…
- Interviewee Emerson, Beverly M., (Beverly Marie), 1952-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Emerson, Beverly M., (Beverly Marie), 1952-, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Women in science, Genetic transcription, Chromatin, Globin genes, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, Proteins--Purification, Cloning, Transcription factors
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Oral history interview with Peter B. Lederman
- 2011-Sep-01 (First session)
- 2011-Sep-19 (Second session)
…the only one. There was a full class. We took English and math and chemistry. Those of us who had been good chemistry students got the advanced … lecture or lecture-recitation. We had . . . I'm going to separate chemistry and chemical engineering. CARUSO: Sure. LEDERMAN: In the chemistry …that we could never do, we could never get the two key departments--chemistry . . . chemical engineering and chemistry were one department, civil…
- Interviewee Lederman, Peter B. (Peter Bernd), 1931-2020
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Hunter, Sarah L., 1985
- Subject Lederman, Peter B. (Peter Bernd), 1931-2020, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, University of Michigan, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Shell Oil Company, Esso Research and Engineering Company, Chemical engineers, Water--Pollution, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview of the toxic substances control act from the perspective of Marilyn C. Bracken
- 2010-Mar-05
…Technology—now Carnegie Mellon University—for my undergraduate work in chemistry, and ended up working in [suburban] Washington [D.C.]. My first …this compound looks like this other compound, and you understand the chemistry and the toxicology of…and you have test data that—on a compound that …it’s an interesting theoretical—but then practical—dilemma from the chemistry perspective, of when is carbon not just carbon? Or when is titanium…
- Interviewee Bracken, Marilyn C., 1935-
- Interviewer Roberts, Jody A., 1976-, Hardy, Kavita D.
- Subject Bracken, Marilyn C., 1935-, Chemicals--Law and legislation, Environmental policy, Environmental protection, Hazardous substances--Law and legislation, Toxic Substances Control Act (United States), United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Oral history interview with Christopher A. Bradfield
- 1997-Dec-02 – 1997-Dec-04
… but it was very analytical chemistry. There were a lot of people who were on HPLC's [High Pressure Liquid …? If I was you, I'd probably go to something with the word 'chemistry' in it.” [laughs] I didn't quite understand what he meant. But I wasn't interested in chemistry; I had had enough environmental chemistry there to last me. So I …
- Interviewee Bradfield, Christopher A., 1958-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Bradfield, Christopher A., 1958-, Bjeldanes, Leonard F., Poland, Alan, 1940-, University of Wisconsin, Dioxins--Research, Hypoxia (Water), Gene therapy--Research, Science and state, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Gordon E. Moore and Jay T. Last
- 2006-Jan-20
…Francisco, California, on 3 January Education 1950 B.S., chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 1954 Ph.D., physical chemistry …Applied Physics Laboratory 1953-1956 Research Chemist, Physical Chemistry Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory 1956-1957 Member, Technical…
- Interviewee Moore, Gordon E., 1929-2023, Last, Jay T.
- Interviewer Brock, David C., Lécuyer, Christophe
- Subject Moore, Gordon E., 1929-2023, Last, Jay T., Fairchild (Firm), Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Noyce, Robert N. (Robert Norton), 1927-1990, Hoerni, Jean A., 1924-1997, International Business Machines Corporation, Intel Corporation, Transistors
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Oral history interview with Barbara A. Schaal
- 2022-May-26
- 2022-Jun-30
…fascination with Victorian literature--I'm just pulling at things--chemistry set or other things that you did other than playing with friends …summertime maybe five to ten books a week--just really read a lot. I had a chemistry set, and I survived. I mean, I can't believe we had chemistry sets …out and collect the slimy water and look at what was in it. I liked chemistry a lot. I thought it was easy, but it was interesting. I adored physics…
- Interviewee Schaal, Barbara A., 1947-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger)
- Subject Emigration and immigration, Schaal, Barbara A., 1947-, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.), Levin, Donald A., Science and state, Botany, Varmus, Harold, Agriculture, Immigrants--Cultural assimilation, COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Plants--Evolution
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Oral history interview with Yusuf A. Hannun
- 1993-Mar-29 – 1993-Mar-30
- 1993-Apr-01 – 1993-Apr-02
…dissecting starfish and whatnot. It was very primitive biology lab work. Chemistry, inorganic chemistry, was also very primitive. I don't think even organic chemistry had the lab. They probably didn't offer a lab for the premeds. There …proposal to NIH and that particular study section. This is physical chemistry or physiological chemistry. This is one of the most rigorous study…
- Interviewee Hannun, Yusuf A., 1955-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Hannun, Yusuf A., 1955-, Education, Biomedical engineering, Protein kinase C, Diglycerides, Sphingolipids, Lebanese Civil War (Lebanon : 1975-1990), Lebanon--Beirut, Minorities in science, Molecular biologists, Medical scientists, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Michael A. Kelly
- 2002-Mar-19
…Arthur Daemmrich LOCATION: Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy New Orleans, Louisiana DATE: 19 … in chemistry. I was more interested in physics and electronics until I was well out of school. I remember I took one organic chemistry class at UCLA, and I broke enough glassware in the first lab that…
- Interviewee Kelly, Michael A., 1936-
- Interviewer Daemmrich, Arthur, Brock, David C.
- Subject Kelly, Michael A., 1936-, United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Engineering, Nuclear physics, Hewlett-Packard Company, Electron spectroscopy, Kevex Corporation, Stanford University, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Scientific apparatus and instruments--Design and construction, Electrical engineers
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Oral history interview with Stephen Buratowski
- 2001-Jun-11 – 2001-Jun-13
… Even then I guess the trend was towards biology. I didn't have a chemistry set when I was a kid. I mean physics— I had one of these Erector …of the best students and we would do things, like what was called "chemistry league." It was basically a chemistry competition. Sometimes they …as well. So he was a particularly good teacher. And my chemistry teacher, Mr. [Daniel] Petrucelli, was also a great teacher in terms…
- Interviewee Buratowski, Stephen, 1962-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Buratowski, Stephen, 1962-, Khoury, George, Recombinant DNA, Sharp, Phillip A., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Biology--Research
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Oral history interview with Yue Xiong
- 2000-Oct-09 – 2000-Oct-11
…. And we actually had a little bit of chemistry class, it was amazing. We even had English class, believe it or not …inspired to anything by that. And the same thing applies to my early chemistry teaching. And we learned a lot of good chemistry, like quantum chemistry and physical chemistry, but I don't remember clearly that anybody was particularly inspiring…
- Interviewee Xiong, Yue, 1958-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Xiong, Yue, 1958-, Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976), Molecular biologists, Molecular biology--Research, Genetics--Research, DNA--Research, Transcriptional activation, Antioncogenes, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Vishva M. Dixit
- 2022-Feb-28
- 2022-Apr-18
… people would do chemistry, pure math, applied math--something like that. So yeah, the last …And it was a small department--still is there--termed physiological chemistry, called physiological chemistry. And it had two faculty other than ……
- Interviewee Dixit, Vishva
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Schneider, Sarah, 1991-
- Subject Emigration and immigration, Physicians, Molecular biology, Apoptosis, Cancer--Research, Genentech, Inc., Biotechnology, University of Michigan. Medical School, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Thrombospondins, Cancer--Treatment, Dixit, Vishva