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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

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  • 2 items
    Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

    Glass Bayer Aspirin Bottle, 200 Tablet Size

    • 1910 – 2007

    Glass Bayer aspirin bottle, 200 tablet size, contains white tablets.

    • Contributor Sterling Drug
    • Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
    • Subject Sterling Drug, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin
  • 2 items
    Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

    Bayer Aspirin Tin, 12 Tablet Size

    • 1910 – 2007

    Small, shallow, rectangular tin box containing medicine pills. Label on front of tin has yellow background with "12 Bayer-Tablets of Aspirin (5 grs. each)" in white text on brown background. Tin pillbox contains…

    • Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
    • Subject Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin
  • 2 items
    Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

    Bayer Flavoured Children's Size Aspirin Bottle

    • 1910 – 2007

    Small glass Bayer flavoured children's size aspirin bottle with pink plastic cap, 36 tablet size, containing pink tablets.

    • Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
    • Subject Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin
  • 2 items
    Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

    Glass Bayer Aspirin Bottle, 300 Tablet Size

    • 1910 – 2007

    Glass Bayer aspirin bottle, 300 tablet size, contains white tablets.

    • Contributor Sterling Drug
    • Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
    • Subject Sterling Drug, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Dean H. Kedes

    • 2007-Oct-25 – 2007-Oct-26

    Dean H. Kedes' oral history begins with a discussion of his childhood and family life. Heavily influenced by his father, also a biomedical scientist, Kedes developed an interest in science early in life. He would visit…

    • Interviewee Kedes, Dean H., 1960-
    • Interviewer Caruso, David J., (David Joseph), 1978-
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Kedes, Dean H., 1960-, Molecular biology, Genetic engineering, Messenger RNA, Steitz, Joan A., Clinical medicine, Communicable diseases, University of Virginia, Work-life balance, Medical sciences, Molecular biologists
  • Photograph of James A. Goodrich
    2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with James A. Goodrich

    • 2006-Aug-15 – 2006-Aug-07

    James A. Goodrich grew up in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, the oldest of five children. His father owned his own business; his mother was a homemaker. Both parents finished high school but did not go to college, so Goodrich…

    • Interviewee Goodrich, James A., 1969-
    • Interviewer Mejia, Robert
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Goodrich, James A., 1969-, Biochemistry, Molecular genetics, Genetic transcription, Genetic transcription--Regulation, Tjian, Robert, University of Colorado Boulder, Minorities in science, Molecular biology, Biochemists, Medical scientists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Kathleen L. Collins

    • 2006-Jul-10 – 2006-Jul-12

    Kathleen L. Collins grew up in Norwell, Massachusetts, a small town near Boston, the second of four children. Her father was a teacher and an assistant principal. Her mother was a nurse until she stayed home with her…

    • Interviewee Collins, Kathleen L., 1963-
    • Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Collins, Kathleen L., 1963-, Catholic Church, Molecular biology, Molecular cloning, DNA--Synthesis, Baltimore, David, University of Michigan, Women in medicine, HIV infections, Immune response
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Seung K. Kim

    • 2006-Mar-09
    • 2006-Mar-16 – 2006-Mar-17

    Seung K. Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, the oldest of three boys. His father had escaped North Korea at the beginning of the Korean Conflict, and he eventually became a doctor. His mother was from a large family in…

    • 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
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Roy M. Long

    • 2005-Dec-02 – 2005-Dec-04

    Roy M. Long grew up in Lebanon, a small town near Hershey, Pennsylvania. His father worked at the Hershey factory, his mother in a department store. Because his father worked afternoons and evenings, Long spent most of…

    • Interviewee Long, Roy M., 1969-
    • Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Long, Roy M., 1969-, Molecular biology, Cytology, Genetic engineering, Biochemistry, Genetic regulation, RNA, Medical College of Wisconsin, Yeast--Genetics, Yeast
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Fenyong Liu

    • 2005-Nov-01 – 2005-Nov-03

    Fenyong Liu was born and raised in Guangzhou, China during the Cultural Revolution. Early on in life he knew that he wanted to pursue science as his career, learning English during junior high school and having…

    • Interviewee Liu, Fenyong, 1964-
    • Interviewer Mejia, Robin
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Liu, Fenyong, 1964-, Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976), Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, DNA replication, Herpes simplex virus, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Antiviral agents, University of California, Berkeley, Cytomegalovirus infections, Virology
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Rebecca W. Heald

    • 2005-Oct-17 – 2005-Oct-19

    Rebecca W. Heald grew up in Greenville, a small college town in western Pennsylvania, where she was the youngest of three daughters. Her father was a chemistry professor at Thiel College in Greenville, and her mother…

    • Interviewee Heald, Rebecca W., 1963-
    • Interviewer Mejia, Robin
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Heald, Rebecca W., 1963-, Biochemistry, Nuclear membranes, Cell cycle, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Spindle (Cell division), Women in science, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists, Molecular biologists, Women molecular biologists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Mark W. Grinstaff

    • 2005-Sep-19 – 2005-Sep-20
    • 2005-Sep-22

    Mark W. Grinstaff was born in Texas, the elder of two sons. His father was in the United States Air Force, and the family moved a number of times during Grinstaff's childhood. He has lived in Japan and at least six…

    • Interviewee Grinstaff, Mark W., 1965-
    • Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Grinstaff, Mark W., 1965-, Chemistry, Inorganic, Proteins, Charge exchange, DNA, Biomedical materials, Biochemistry, Minorities in science, Polymers in medicine, Eye--Surgery, Biomedical engineers
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Kun Ping Lu

    • 2005-Aug-03 – 2005-Aug-05

    Kun Ping Lu was born in Pinghe County, a rural area of Fujian Province in southern China, one of six children. His father had been born into a poor farming family who adopted him out to a wealthy family who had one…

    • 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
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Douglas R. Kellogg

    • 2005-Jan-13
    • 2005-Jan-17

    Douglas R. Kellogg grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, the second oldest of four children. He had an early interest in reading, and took classes with several influential teachers. Kellogg first chose the University of…

    • Interviewee Kellogg, Douglas R., 1960-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Kellogg, Douglas R., 1960-, Drosophila, Biochemistry, Cytoskeleton--Formation, Cell cycle, Growth factors, Molecular genetics, Cytology, Cell interaction, Molecular biologists, Medical scientists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Monica L. Vetter

    • 2004-Nov-05
    • 2004-Nov-08

    Monica L. Vetter grew up in Markham, Ontario, Canada, the eldest of three siblings. Vetter's father worked for Honeywell and in the computer industry generally—and was gifted musically—and her mother was a nurse who,…

    • Interviewee Vetter, Monica L., 1963-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Vetter, Monica L., 1963-, Women in medicine, Women in science, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Neurobiology, Molecular genetics, Women medical scientists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Susan J. Birren

    • 2004-Aug-02 – 2004-Aug-04

    Susan J. Birren spent time in New York and Washington, D.C., though grew up mostly in Kentfield, California, just north of San Francisco, the second youngest of four siblings. Her father was a lawyer, and then an…

    • 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
  • 9 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

    • 2004-Apr-19 – 2004-Apr-20

    Lilianna Solnica-Krezel was born in Cieplice-Sląskie, a small village in the mountains in the southwestern part of Poland, but grew up in Sandomierz, Poland, at a time when the country was still under the communist…

    • 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
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Matthew K. Waldor

    • 2004-Jan-26
    • 2004-Jan-28

    Matthew K. Waldor grew up in the suburbs of Newark, New Jersey, the middle of three children. Waldor's father spent much time in the American military—in active and reserve duty, eventually retiring at the rank of major…

    • Interviewee Waldor, Matthew K., 1958-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Waldor, Matthew K., 1958-, Molecular biology, Neurology, Communicable diseases, Cholera--Research, Medical sciences, Medicine--Research, Molecular biologists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Martin Latterich

    • 2004-Jan-12 – 2004-Jan-13
    • 2004-Jan-15

    Martin Latterich was born in Hamburg, Germany, though lived in Mönchengladbach, Germany until he left for college. His mother, a trained chemist who worked in quality control at a company that manufactured perfume, had…

    • Interviewee Latterich, Martin, 1966-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Latterich, Martin, 1966-, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Great Britain), Cytology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, McGill University, Cell interaction, Molecular genetics, Mammals--Genetics
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Lili Yamasaki

    • 2004-Jan-08 – 2004-Jan-09

    Lili Yamasaki grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan, the second youngest of six siblings. Yamasaki's father was a physician and her mother a nurse, until she began raising her children. Yamasaki had an early interest in…

    • Interviewee Yamasaki, Lili, 1960-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Women in science, Enzymology, Retinoblastoma, Molecular biologists, Molecular biology--Research, Medicine--Research, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists
  • Photograph of  Jonathan D. Goldberg
    2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Jonathan D. Goldberg

    • 2003-Dec-26
    • 2003-Dec-30
    • 2004-Jan-05

    Jonathan D. Goldberg was born and raised in Hertfordshire, England, one of two children. From the outset, it was clear to his parents that Goldberg was talented academically and so they encouraged him from a young age…

    • 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
  • Photograph of Roberta A. Sanchez Gottlieb
    2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Roberta A. Sanchez Gottlieb

    • 2003-Oct-10
    • 2003-Oct-13

    Roberta A. Sanchez Gottlieb grew up on a cattle ranch about eighty miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, the youngest of three sisters, though, given the disparity in ages (five and six years older), she felt like she was…

    • Interviewee Sanchez Gottlieb, Roberta A., 1958-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Sanchez Gottlieb, Roberta A., 1958-, Hautzig, Walter, Music, Hematology, Oncology, Protein kinases, Scripps Research Institute, Women in medicine, Medicine--Research, Coronary heart disease, Medical scientists, Microbiologists, Women microbiologists
  • 9 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Yixian Zheng

    • 2003-Sep-09 – 2003-Sep-11

    Yixian Zheng was born and raised in Chongqing, the Sichuan province of China, the elder (by about nine years) of the family's two daughters. Both of her parents were professors at Chongqing University—her mother in…

    • Interviewee Zheng, Yixian, 1969-
    • Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Zheng, Yixian, 1969-, Women in science, Centrosomes, Microtubules, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Women in medicine, Women medical scientists, Emigration and immigration
  • Photograph of Carolyn R. Bertozzi
    12 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Carolyn R. Bertozzi

    • 2003-Aug-17 – 2003-Aug-18

    Carolyn Bertozzi grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the second of three girls. Her father was a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her mother a secretary in MIT's physics department.…

    • Interviewee Bertozzi, Carolyn R., 1966-
    • Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Women molecular biologists, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology--Research, Carbohydrates--Physiological effect, Bertozzi, Carolyn R., 1966-, Molecular biologists, Nobel Prize winners
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Ann Marie Craig

    • 2003-Apr-08 – 2003-Apr-10

    Ann Marie Craig was born in Ithaca, New York, the second of three children. Her father was a graduate student in business administration at Cornell University, and her mother was a nurse. Both parents came from small…

    • Interviewee Craig, Ann Marie, 1961-
    • Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Women medical scientists, Neuroscientists, Women in medicine, Women in science, Medical scientists, Neurosciences--Research, Neurobiology--Research, Craig, Ann Marie, 1961-
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