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Oral history interview with Shirley Mahaley Malcom
- 2020-Aug-05
- 2020-Aug-25
Shirley Mahaley Malcom was born in 1946 in Birmingham, Alabama, which was a segregated city. She grew up in her grandmother’s house with her parents and sister and was surrounded by other family and a strong Black…
- Interviewee Malcom, Shirley M., 1946-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger), Matthews, Kirstin R. W.
- Subject Civil rights movements, Race discrimination, Minorities in science, Women in science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science and state, National Science Board (U.S.), Sputnik satellites, African American women scientists, Clinton, Bill, 1946-, Scientists, Black, Ecologists, Malcom, Shirley M., 1946-
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Research interview with Peter Handler
- 2017-Aug-03
… HANDLER: We were just being there, on the island where Acadia National Park was. We were just there. We worked when we had to, and no more. …that as we have, in this country and in other places in the world, national parks, that in a science-fiction world, that there would be some planets …conscientious objector. He spent the summer of 1969 living near Acadia National Park and attended Woodstock Music Festival. For several years after …
- Interviewee Handler, Peter, 1947-
- Interviewer Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Sponsor Climate & Urban Systems Partnership
- Subject Handler, Peter, 1947-, Woodstock Festival, Communal living, Climatology, Environmentalists--Political activity
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Oral history interview with Mark D. Biggin
- 1996-Mar-04
- 1996-Mar-06 – 1996-Mar-07
…the edge of the-- It's basically right next to the Peak District National Park, which is a beautiful sort of area of hills and moors. When you … Biggin grew up in Chesterfield, England, near the Peak District National Park, where he cycled the moors and hills from an early age. He attended…
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Oral history interview with Jonathon Howard
- 1995-Jan-23 – 1995-Jan-25
…the local water hole. The high school was right on the edge of the national park. It was almost too much of a temptation in summer just to stay …lived in the north of Sydney right on the edge of the Ku-ring-gai National Park. And Ku-ring-gai National Park is a huge national park. I don't …bash our way down the creeks and gulleys and over the hills in the national park looking for whatever: crayfish or just looking for a good place…
- Interviewee Howard, Jonathon, 1957-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Howard, Jonathon, 1957-, Neurobiology, Photoreceptors, Hair cells, University of Washington, Kinesin, Myosin, Neurobiologists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Kai Zinn
- 1994-Sep-14
- 1994-Sep-21
- 1994-Sep-27
- 1994-Oct-04
… Wiley, Don C., 30, 59, 61, 85 Witte, Owen N., 95 Y Yosemite National Park, 19, 64 Z Zinn, Howard, 2 Zinn, Jeffrey (brother), 5 Zinn, …After graduation Zinn had planned to travel, but he fell at Yosemite National Park and broke his leg, so he ended up back at Kyte's lab for a month…
- 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 Thomas E. Lovejoy III
- 2021-Jul-07
- 2021-Jul-30
Thomas E. Lovejoy III was born in New York City, New York, in 1941. An only child, Lovejoy spent a year-and-a-half on the eastern shore of Maryland out in nature as a young child. His father ran a life insurance…
- Interviewee Lovejoy, Thomas E.
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger)
- Subject Lovejoy, Thomas E., Amazon River Region, World Wildlife Fund, Zoology, Biologists, Ornithology, Ecology, Environmental policy, Biodiversity conservation, Science and state
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Oral history interview with Margaret C. Kielian
- 1994-Jun-20
- 1994-Jun-23
- 1994-Jun-30
- 1996-Nov-14
…When we went on vacations, we would go to places like Yellowstone [National Park], where there were all these things, you know, geology things that …a bit older, became these really big trips, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, the West Coast. They never took us to cities. They were more into like the national park route, which I think for a kid is fascinating. So I always liked …curiosity and interest. Her family had hiking trips and picnics in national parks and forests, and these trips also stimulated her love of nature…
- Interviewee Kielian, Margaret C., 1952-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D., Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kielian, Margaret C., 1952-, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Women molecular biologists, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Helsingin yliopisto, Semliki Forest virus, Endocytosis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cytology, Proteins--Structure
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Oral history interview with Thomas F. Schilling
- 2008-Dec-05
…long time. […] I worked in the summers in college in Yellowstone [National Park] for [four years]. NELSON: Nice. SCHILLING: That was …advertisement] at the church […] that said, “Apply for a job in national parks.” I […] said I would be willing to wash dishes or whatever. I …93, 94, 95, 96, 105, 117, 118, 123 Pathway to Independence, 88 National Park Service, 48 National Science Foundation, 93, 94 Nature Camp, …
- Interviewee Schilling, Thomas F., 1963-
- Interviewer Nelson, Nicole C.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Schilling, Thomas F., 1963-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Biologists, Drosophila, Tretinoin, Zebra danio, Neural crest
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Oral history interview with Scott W. Rogers
- 2000-Jun-19 – 2000-Jun-21
…this kind of thing. I had a fabulous job. I got to know most of the national park people, which was Bureau of Interior [The United States Department … been working up in an area called Island Park near Yellowstone [National Park], and I had been in charge of this project. They flew out, and … involved. There's nothing like this. You can be in Yellowstone [National Park] in five hours, you can be in the Grand Canyon [National Park] …
- Interviewee Rogers, Scott W., 1955-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Rogers, Scott W., 1955-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Drosophila--Genetics, Immunology, Neurosciences
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Oral history interview with Audrey C. Rust
- 2007-Jul-05
…It was a lot of money for a National Park and why would the National Park want this? BROCK: I see. …the Moores were to say they would like to give that house to the National Park Service, I think the National Park Service would want it immediately …Moore, Walter T., 18 N National Fish and Wildlife Service, 11 National Park Service, 11, 15, 16 National Park System, 15 Northern Santa Clara…
- Interviewee Rust, Audrey C.
- Interviewer Brock, David C.
- Sponsor Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Subject Rust, Audrey C., Peninsula Open Space Trust, Women in science, Conservation of natural resources
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 3
- 2017 (Fall)
… been decontaminated and stamped with the National Park Service’s iconic arrowhead logo. The park’s museum lets youngsters … National Historic Landmark, part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. August 9, Bockscar’s bombardier dropped Fat Man through a …President Obama designated it part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in 2014. | | _| | anford had a life before the bomb. Until…
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 1
- 2017 (Spring)
…policy, but he wasn’t entirely apathetic. He had visited Yosemite National Park and the Grand Canyon as a child and “would lighten up” at mention …expanded highway system made it easier for suburbanites to visit national parks and to camp and fish. More of them began to see unspoiled wilderness …proposed jetport in Florida that would have threatened Everglades National Park. On the other hand, the White House antagonized envi- ronmentalists…
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Oral history interview with Jochen Buck
- 1998-Dec-14 – 1998-Dec-16
…like the city; to have a lab for four months in Maine, in Acadia National Park, at Jackson Lab[oratory], because it's a beautiful landscape; and …my vacations hiking: hiking through the Alps, hiking here in the national parks, going with the backpack for days. This is also stuff where you …W Welte, Karl, 47 Wohngemeinschaft, 22, 34, 35 Y Yellowstone National Park, 59, 60 Z zebrafish, 44 Zimmerman, 7 Zivildienst, 32 …
- Interviewee Buck, Jochen, 1956-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Vietnam War (1961-1975), Hammerling, Ulrich, Buck, Jochen, 1956-, Cells--Growth, Autocrine mechanisms, Vitamin A, Cornell University. Medical College, Adenylate cyclase, Medical scientists, Pharmacologists
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Oral history interview with Arthur L. Babson
- 2011-Dec-06 (First session)
- 2011-Dec-08 (Second session)
… preserves and bird sanctuaries, 85 national monuments and many national parks were created by executive order. The land available today for such …doubly vigilant lest private interests encroach on our existing national parks and forests. We are indebted to Darwin because he placed man … now number about 200,000 animals. The largest is in Yellowstone National Park, about 4,000 head or somewhat fewer than Buffalo Bill dispatched…
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Distillations, Volume 2 Number 4
- 2017 (Winter)
…extinction. - 24 ON THE COVER A white rhinoceros grazing at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. MICHAEL KNOWLES/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO. FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED …of tactics. Their first lines of defense are the borders around national parks. Dozens of African wildlife reserves have become war zones, with ……
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Oral history interview with Martin Karplus
- 2015-Dec-09
- 2016-Mar-04
- 2016-May-25
…Going through Canada, [. . .] I went across, and stopped in the national parks, and rode around on horses. It was mainly to admire nature. I don …in the middle of the US. Outstanding were Bryce [Canyon] and Zion National Park. EARDLEY-PRYOR: What did you do at these parks? You mentioned going to Banff [National Park] and Jasper [National Park] and Bryce and Zion down in Utah. What…
- Interviewee Karplus, Martin, 1930-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Subject Karplus, Martin, 1930-, Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, Quadrupole moments, Harvard University, Biology, Nobel Prize winners, Bird watching, Molecular dynamics, Photography
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Oral history interview with Warren G. Schlinger
- 2002-Jul-24
… He loved photography and took me to Death Valley and Yosemite [National Park, California]. We had great experiences. Probably as much as anyone …National] Memorial being carved out of the rocks, and then Yellowstone [National Park], and then through Nevada, through Reno to Los Angeles. That was …II [WWII], 2, 4, 8-9, 12-13, 17, 19-20, 25, 29 Y Yellowstone National Park, 23 Yorba Linda, California, 43 Yosemite National Park, California…
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Oral history interview with Paul M. MacDonald
- 1995-Feb-21 – 1995-Feb-23
… And there were different camps. There was one in Rocky Mountain National Park, and they did a lot of trail work to keep the trails open. This is a very big national park where there are lots of visitors, so there is a lot of maintenance …See ribonucleic acid Rockefeller University, 105 Rocky Mountain National Park, 7 Rowen, Lee, 26, 31, 34, 41 S Sacramento, California, 7 Sambrook…
- Interviewee Macdonald, Paul Marshall, 1955-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Macdonald, Paul Marshall, 1955-, Bacteriophages, Molecular genetics, Molecular biology, Recombinant DNA, Drosophila, Gene expression, Stanford University, Nucleotide sequence
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Oral history interview with Yue Xiong
- 2000-Oct-09 – 2000-Oct-11
… and outside things. We have been in probably two-thirds of the national parks of the United States already. We have been to a lot of small countries …California many times. VAN BENSCHOTEN: Yeah. XIONG: The Kings [Canyon National] Park and Yosemite [National Park] and all those parks. VAN BENSCHOTEN…
- 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 William S. Knowles
- 2008-Jan-30
…parks, Yosemite, Yosemite’s parks had just recently been made into National parks, I think. KNOWLES: Oh, no. Well, they were all. Those two …World War II, 2, 9, 40, 84 Y Yale University, 13, 19 Yellowstone National Park, 58 Yosemite National Park, 58, 59 …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 13 Number 1
- 1995 (Winter)
… Foundation has purchased a permanent home at Independence National Historical Park. Our address, at the heart of the nation’s most historic area …the many thousands of school children who visit Independence National Historical Park each year. As a reader of Chemical Heritage, you surely know …Bell and Independence Hall, and the Visitors Center to the National Historical Park is “just across the green” from our front door. We can be …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 18 Number 1
- 2000-Feb
… …On the cover Independence National Historical Park, with CHF’s newly renovated home (inset, with the new entrance …construction project— providing a permanent home at Inde- pendence National Historical Park in Philadelphia for the Beckman Center, the Othmer Library…
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Oral history interview with Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
- 2004-Apr-19 – 2004-Apr-20
…There's a place called Bialowieza and this is a national reserve, national park, where you have still European bison living, and it's a beautiful …New England. One of my favorite places still in US to go is Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island [Maine], where we spent some vacations …
- 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 Peter Baumann
- 2009-Sep-09 – 2009-Sep-10
…Scotland, which I took several times to go hiking in the Cairngorms [National Park] and other regions in the Highlands. When we had submitted the …, 65 Bristol, England, 44 Brown, Patrick O., 57 C Cairngorms National Park, 44 Cancer Research Center, 39, 52, 53 Cancer Research UK, 27…
- Interviewee Baumann, Peter, 1969-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Baumann, Peter, 1969-, Molecular biology, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Great Britain), DNA repair, Telomerase, University of Colorado Boulder, Proteins, Herpetology
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Oral history interview with Michael Farrar
- 2008-Aug-13 – 2008-Aug-14
…would be we’d go to the Blue Ridge Mountains, you know, Shenandoah [National Park] for a couple of weeks. When we moved to New Jersey there was …39 Sharp, Phillip A., 33 Sheehan, Kathleen, 37, 47 Shenandoah National Park, 5 Shimizu, Yoji, 71 signal transducers and activators of transcription…
- Interviewee Farrar, Michael A., 1964-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Farrar, Michael A., 1964-, Biology, Astrophysics, Addison's disease, Immunology, B cells, University of Minnesota, Leukemia, Hobbies, Work-life balance