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Premarin advertisement
- 1990s
Advertisement for Premarin (conjugated estrogen), Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories' hormone therapy product for the treatment of menopausal symptoms. The ad features an image of a woman walking dogs on the beach. The text…
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Pneumocheck 61000 Spirometer & 76100 Charger Printer
- 1990s
Pictured from left to right is a printer made of black and beige plastic with a panel of buttons and two LED lights, the spirometer device, a black plastic unit with four buttons and a small LCD screen, and a power…
- Creator Of Work Welsh Allyn
- Subject Medical instruments and apparatus, Spirometry, Spirometry--Equipment and supplies, Racism in medicine, Racism, Respiration, Lungs
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2 items
Chi-Ches-Ters Menstrual Pain Relief Tablets
- 1900s
Container of "Chi-Ches-ters" menstrual pain relief tablets, manufactured by Chichester Chemical Co.
Chichester Chemical Co. also manufactured "Pennyroyal Pills," which were marketed with language that subtly indicated…
- Manufacturer Chichester Chemical Co.
- Subject Analgesics, Drugs, Menstruation, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Women--Health and hygiene, Menstrual products
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Beckman Triad Liquid Controls for Nysspath Quality Control Panel
- 1990s
The reagents served as controls for immunoassays on systems that included the Beckman Synchron.
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3 items
Oral history interview with David W. Golde
- 1999-Dec-15
David Golde begins the interview with a discussion of his early years and education in Bayonne, New Jersey. In high school, Golde developed an interest in medicine, which was stimulated by his biology teacher. He…
- 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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11 items
Oral history interview with Maureen J. Charron
- 1999-Sep-07 – 1999-Sep-09
Maureen J. Charron has spent most of her life in New York City, New York. She was born on Long Island but grew up in Queens. The elder of two sisters born to parents of Italian and French Canadian descent, she attended…
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Oral history interview with Sarah A. Woodson
- 1999-Jul-19 – 1999-Jul-21
Sarah A. Woodson was born and raised in Warren, Michigan. Her father was a music teacher; Sarah's mother, who was from Amsterdam, Holland, was a housewife until her children were older, when she finished college and…
- Interviewee Woodson, Sarah A., 1961-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Woodson, Sarah A., 1961-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, RNA--Research, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, College teachers, Women medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Joshua M. Kaplan
- 1999-Jun-22 – 1999-Jun-24
Joshua M. Kaplan was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of three siblings. His father was an academic physician specializing in hematology, and his mother was a social worker. Raised in a traditionally…
- 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 James U. Bowie
- 1999-May-05
- 1999-May-14
- 1999-May-19
James U. Bowie was born in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1959; the youngest of four siblings. Bowie's father, E. J. Walter Bowie, was a doctor originally from England who met Bowie's Swiss mother, Gertrud Ülrich, while she…
- Interviewee Bowie, James Ulrich, 1959-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Bowie, James Ulrich, 1959-, Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Crystallography, Eisenberg, David S., Cell membranes, Cells--Growth--Regulation
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Oral history interview with Manfred Frasch
- 1998-Dec-17 – 1998-Dec-19
Manfred Frasch was born in Holzgerlingen, Germany, in Swabia. His father was what we would call a contractor, building mostly wooden roofs. This business was begun by Frasch's grandfather, and the Frasch family has…
- 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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8 items
Oral history interview with Helen Murray Free
- 1998-Dec-14
Helen Free begins the interview with a discussion of her family and childhood growing up in Ohio. Free attended Poland Seminary High School in Ohio. She was greatly influenced by her English teacher at Poland and she…
- Interviewee Free, Helen M.
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Sponsor American Chemical Society
- Subject Free, Helen M., Women in science, Chemists, Women chemists, Miles Laboratories, Miles Laboratories. Ames Division, Indiana University at South Bend, Ames Company, Miles Inc., Chemistry, Biochemistry
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Oral history interview with Markus D. Meister
- 1998-Nov-18
- 1998-Nov-20
- 1998-Nov-28
Markus D. Meister was born in Siegsdorf, Germany, a small town in Swabian Germany, in the foothills of the Alps. His father completed a PhD in physics, and when Markus was a young boy the family moved to the village of…
- Interviewee Meister, Markus, 1940-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Meister, Markus, 1940-, Science--Study and teaching, Euratom, Education, Bilingual, Biology, Berg, Howard C., 1934-, Neurosciences, Visual perception, Harvard Medical School
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Oral history interview with Paul D. Gollnick
- 1998-Oct-12 – 1998-Oct-14
Paul D. Gollnick was born and mostly raised in Pullman, Washington. For one year when he was about 10 (or else in eighth grade) he and his family lived in Stockholm, Sweden, where his father was on sabbatical. Because…
- Interviewee Gollnick, Paul D., 1958-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Gollnick, Paul D., 1958-, Biochemistry, Transfer RNA, HeLa cells, Gene expression, State University of New York at Buffalo, Molecular cloning, Bacillus subtilis, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Mark P. Kamps
- 1998-Feb-10 – 1998-Feb-12
Mark P. Kamps grew up in northern New Jersey, one of four children. His father was an engineer, his mother a teacher until her children came along. Kamps's parents, of Dutch descent, belonged to the Christian Reformed…
- Interviewee Kamps, Mark P., 1959-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kamps, Mark P., 1959-, Christian Reformed Church, Religion and science, Biochemistry, Retrovirus infections--Animal models, Cancer--Research, Protein kinases, Baltimore, David, Oncogenes, University of California, San Diego, Carcinogenesis, Gene expression, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Lee W. Riley
- 1997-Dec-29 – 1997-Dec-31
Lee W. Riley was born Hiroshi Satoyoshi: he spent his first ten years with his mother in Yokohama, Japan, then lived for a short time in a Japanese orphanage before being adopted by the Riley family, at which time he…
- Interviewee Riley, Lee W., 1949-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Riley, Lee W., 1949-, Public health, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Escherichia coli--Research, Tuberculosis--Research, Communicable diseases--Transmission, Tuberculosis--Pathogenesis
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Oral history interview with David E. Levy
- 1997-Jul-23 – 1997-Jul-25
- 1997-Jul-29
David E. Levy was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of two children. His father was a chemist, his mother a classicist; both had been living in California but were assigned to Oak…
- Interviewee Levy, David E.
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Levy, David E., Biochemistry, Immunology, Solomon, Alan, Retroviruses, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Liver cells, Rockefeller University, New York University. School of Medicine
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Oral history interview with Adrian R. Krainer
- 1997-Apr-09 – 1997-Apr-11
Adrian R. Krainer was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay in a Jewish family of eastern European descent (Hungary and Romania), the younger of two brothers. (Krainer's father was forced to work in a Romanian labor…
- Interviewee Krainer, Adrian
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Krainer, Adrian, Antisemitism, Education, Bilingual, Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular cloning, Messenger RNA, Discoveries in science, Genetic disorders, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Minorities in science, Geneticists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Roderick MacKinnon
- 1997-Apr-01 – 1997-Apr-03
Roderick MacKinnon was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and grew up in Burlington, an outer suburb of Boston. He is the fourth of seven children. His father had not gone to college, but he picked up…
- Interviewee MacKinnon, Roderick, 1956-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject MacKinnon, Roderick, 1956-, Gymnastics, Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School, Potassium channels, Ion channels, Rockefeller University, Neurosciences, Research grants
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Oral history interview with Jerry R. Faust
- 1997-Feb-18 – 1997-Feb-20
Jerry R. Faust began his childhood on his father's farm in rural Texas. When his parents divorced he moved with his mother, a nurse, and his brother to Dallas, Texas, where he attended junior high school and high…
- Interviewee Faust, Jerry R., 1948-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Faust, Jerry R., 1948-, Biochemistry, Brown, Michael S., 1941-, Goldstein, Joseph L. (Joseph Leonard), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Clinical medicine--Research, Cholesterol--Metabolism, Research grants, Biochemists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Marjorie A. Oettinger
- 1997-Feb-10 – 1997-Feb-12
Marjorie A. Oettinger grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, the younger of two children. Her father was a professor at Harvard University; her mother taught biology at Harvard University; and her brother went to Harvard…
- Interviewee Oettinger, Marjorie A., 1961-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Oettinger, Marjorie A., 1961-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Genetics, Genetic recombination
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Oral history interview with Judy Lieberman
- 1997-Jan-29
- 1997-Jan-31
Judy Lieberman, the second of three daughters, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but grew up in a New Jersey suburb of New York City. Her father worked for Maidenform Incorporated, and her mother was an elementary…
- Interviewee Lieberman, Judy, 1947-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Lieberman, Judy, 1947-, Physics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Tufts University. School of Medicine, Immunology, Immunotherapy, AIDS (Disease), Women in science, Women in medicine, Career changes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School
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Oral history interview with Marion David Francis
- 1997-Jan-24
Marion David Francis begins his interview with a discussion of his childhood in Canada. Deeply influenced by his industrious parents and siblings, Francis worked his way through high school and college at a logging…
- Interviewee Francis, Marion D., 1923-2016
- Interviewer Traynham, James G.
- Subject Biochemists, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Procter & Gamble Company, Fluorides, Francis, Marion D., 1923-2016, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Ann M. Pullen
- 1996-Aug-07 – 1996-Aug-09
Ann M. Pullen was born in Eastbourne, a small town on the south coast of England, though was raised in Sutton Coldfield just outside of Birmingham, the elder of two sisters. Both of her parents were university-educated…
- Interviewee Pullen, Ann M., 1961-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Pullen Ann M., 1961-, Kappler, John, Marrack, P. (Philippa), Perlmutter, Roger, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Women medical scientists, Medical scientists, Women in medicine, Women in science, Medicine--Research, Immunology
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Oral history interview with Timothy J. McDonnell
- 1996-Jun-17 – 1996-Jun-19
Timothy J. McDonnell spent his first six years in Indiana and Spain; then the family moved to San Diego, California. His father was a mechanical engineer in the Navy and then the Air Force. His mother had been a weather…
- Interviewee McDonnell, Timothy J., 1956-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject McDonnell, Timothy J., 1956-, Biology, Cytology, Carcinogens, Heart cells, Cancer genes, Oncogenes, Molecular biology, Pathology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Prostate--Cancer
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Oral history interview with Lynn Cooley
- 1996-Mar-04 – 1996-Mar-05
- 1996-Mar-07
Lynn Cooley grew up in Portland, Connecticut, the middle child of five. Her father was in aeronautical engineering and her mother in physics, so she had a very early introduction, if not a genetic predisposition, to…
- 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-