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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 George A. Olah
- 2000-Feb-03
…but it is an alchemist's story. He wants to make gold, using the philosopher's stone. The second part of Faust, which he wrote much later in his …things. His conclusion is that whereas attempts to make gold with the philosopher's stone failed, wealth was really achieved in a different way, through…
- Interviewee Olah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927-2017
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Traynham, James G.
- Subject University of Southern California, Dow Chemical Company, Chemists, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, Chemists--Biography, Nobel Prize winners, Olah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927-2017, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Rudolph E. Tanzi
- 1998-Nov-16 – 1998-Nov-18
- 1998-Nov-24
…blackout." And he didn't like that. I think he just looked at me completely stone-faced. But there was just the idea that I believed more in fate and …then that's now on the classic hits stations--[David] Bowie, [Rolling] Stones, Talking Heads, stuff like that. So I found a band. It was a punk band …band and half-cover band. We decided we had to play our share of the Stones and Bowie and Aerosmith and stuff to make some money, because you couldn…
- Interviewee Tanzi, Rudolph E.
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Tanzi, Rudolph E., Neurobiology, Neurobiologists, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Genetic disorders, Genetics--Research, Alzheimer's disease--Research
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9 items
Oral history interview with Orlando Aloysius Battista
- 1992-Feb-23
…They never knew each other before they met in Canada. My father was a stone mason by trade and he worked for the Canadian government all his life …the ACS, sponsored by the Phillips Petroleum Company, and I told Clem Stone that I would be able to stop in Chicago en route to Denver and bring …buildings. They committed billions of dollars around the world, and Clem Stone had guaranteed to back them up with major financial support. He said…
- Interviewee Battista, O. A. (Orlando Aloysius), 1917-1995
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Hemostasis, Surgical, American Viscose Corporation, O. A. Battista Research Institute, Psychotropic drugs, Viscose process, Battista, O. A. (Orlando Aloysius), 1917-1995, Cellulose--Chemistry, FMC Corporation, University of Texas, Microcrystalline polymers, Chemists--Biography, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Lester F. Lau
- 1992-Nov-06 – 1992-Nov-08
…. It seems to me that, while there have been all these philosophers talking about the same issues, there hasn’t been all that much progress …certainly. I mean, I think that’s how Bertrand Russell and great philosophers of the twentieth century see what they’re doing as well. LAU …over a longer term. But it doesn’t offer you anything except, you know, stone-cold faces, evaluating very seriously. They take these meetings as …
- Interviewee Lau, Lester F., 1955-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Lau, Lester F., 1955-, Molecular biology, Genetic engineering, Yeast--Genetics, SV40 (Virus), Cell cycle--Regulation, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Medical School, College of Medicine at Chicago, Nucleotide sequence
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11 items
Oral history interview with John E. Woolston
- 2001-Nov-19 – 2001-Nov-21
…managing a service. I think it was on tropical fruits. But he was also a philosopher. He was also somebody who [. . .] thought very deeply about what … became Deputy Director. IDRC had [recruited] a lady [. . .] Martha Stone [. . .]. I don’t really know [. . .] the circumstances [of] her coming … 85, 86, 88 STI. See Scientific and Technical Information Division Stone, Martha, 87, 88, 89 Syria, 57, 90 T Tell, Bjorn, 54 Tennessee, …
- Interviewee Woolston, John E.
- Interviewer Rayward, W. Boyd
- Subject Woolston, John E., 1924-2017, Mass spectrometry, Nuclear physics, Science publishing, Information science, INIS (Information retrieval system)
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Oral history interview with Stephen Buratowski
- 2001-Jun-11 – 2001-Jun-13
… BURATOWSKI: Yeah, yeah. Keyboard. Well, the organ was a stepping stone and then what I really wanted was a synthesizer. So this is now probably …something you enjoyed, so much the better. You know, it was a stepping stone, I guess, basically, in a career. And then for me, the academics and … it. You know, just say "Well, we'll let the politicians and the philosophers debate about whether this is a good thing or not." COHEN: …
- 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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19 items
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
…looked out on the garden and the sun coming in, moss had grown on the stones. It's an image, I think, that's very non-Western in that sense. And …yeah, it was fine, but at the time, it looked like there was a lot of stone, and when I-- On the plane, when we took off from Logan [International … HATHAWAY: Who were they? Were they historians? I mean, a mix of philosophers, scientists, biologists? ALBER: Dick [Richard G.] Olson, history…
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8 items
Oral history interview with Pradip Raychaudhuri
- 1997-Nov-01 – 1997-Nov-02
… religions preach. There are people who are well-respected Hindu philosophers. They're, again, like this person [Swarupananda]. Being a scientist …do not study the basic science--the biology of it--we'll be throwing stones in the dark when it comes to thinking about disease--how to treat patients…
- 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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13 items
Oral history interview with Lee W. Riley
- 1997-Dec-29 – 1997-Dec-31
…Thailand the third time, you know I realized I couldn’t do much as a philosopher either in Thailand. [laughs] So that’s when I decided to go to medical …practicing clinician or--? RILEY: No, no, no. Use that as a stepping stone to doing international health, as I mentioned; go to the London School…
- 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 Roger E. Karess
- 1996-Apr-23 – 1996-Apr-26
…of museum. It had a cemetery. Some local hoodlums knocked down some stones a couple of years ago, and it made the news. So, you know, that kind …that is. Don’t get mad with me, but I don’t have much patience for philosophers who say, “What is truth?” I took one course in philosophy in college…
- Interviewee Karess, Roger E., 1955-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Karess, Roger E., 1955-, Reform Judaism, Oncogenic viruses, Reverse transcriptase, Retroviruses, RNA, Protein kinases, Oncogenes, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Genetics, Drosophila, Discoveries in science, Biochemists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Jonathon Howard
- 1995-Jan-23 – 1995-Jan-25
…answer to that question. NOVAK: Now, those are questions that philosophers have posed for thousands of years as well. Had you taken any philosophy …protein subunits that make up the microtubule as being a little stepping-stone. And we know the path on that surface that the motor steps; the steps…
- 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 Gary H. Gibbons
- 2001-Feb-20 – 2001-Feb-22
… thoughts on the subject? GIBBONS: No, I'm not a good enough philosopher [mutual laughter] to opine on that. I guess I'd have to say that …sense that, "Okay, they're here." And again there weren't epithets or stones or police dogs or anything like that, but there was also a sense that…
- Interviewee Gibbons, Gary H., 1956-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Gibbons, Gary H., 1956-, Segregation, Cardiovascular system--Diseases, Cardiology, Stanford University, Morehouse School of Medicine, African Americans--Civil rights, Harvard Medical School, Renin-angiotensin system, Medical scientists, Scientists, Black
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Oral history interview with Stephen J. Elledge
- 1995-Aug-16 – 1995-Aug-18
… that, but in the late sixties, early seventies? Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher— ELLEDGE: No. I know of him, but no, I didn't. MAESTREJUAN …won't want to take the risks for fear that they'll miss the stepping stone and fall into the pond. [laughter] MAESTREJUAN: Yeah. Well, given…
- Interviewee Elledge, Stephen Joseph, 1956-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Elledge, Stephen Joseph, 1956-, Davis, Ronald W. (Ronald Wayne), 1941-, Cyclin-dependent kinases, Cell cycle, Cancer--Research, Baylor University. College of Medicine, Antioncogenes, Molecular cloning, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Charles E. Connor
- 2004-Jul-19 – 2004-Jul-20
…coded in the brain—as Ken has always said, it’s almost like a Rosetta Stone—you’d be able to look at neural activity and understand what was being … the Mitteleuropa Foundation, which is mainly a phenomenological philosophers and phenomenological cognitive science, so there’s this whole tradition…
- Interviewee Connor, Charles Edward, 1955-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Connor, Charles Edward, 1955-, Johns Hopkins University, Neurosciences, Artificial vision, Neural transmission, Brain--Data processing, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Neuroscientists, Medical scientists
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6 items
Oral history interview with Herbert Morawetz
- 1986-Apr-01
… might turn up. He was often compared to the Platonic idea of the philosopher-king. He had been a professor of philosophy. In retrospect, one …Nature of the Chain Backbone," ibid., A-2, 9 (1971): 1657-1658. Irwin M. Stone, Philip P. Gray and Herbert Morawetz, "Production of Stable Malt Beverages…
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11 items
Oral history interview with Eugene Garfield
- 1997-Jul-29
…his stuff, and his stuff is written really— GARFIELD: He’s a philosopher. Dogmatic? WILLIAMS: —sort of “devil take the hindmost” kind …What were the best papers on the way? What were some of the stepping stones? These were the kinds of things we had anticipated in our original …
- Interviewee Garfield, Eugene, 1925-2017
- Interviewer Williams, Robert V.
- Subject Citation indexes, Science--Abstracting and indexing, Garfield, Eugene, 1925-2017, Chemistry--Nomenclature, Chemistry--Notation, Information scientists, Information science, Communication in science, Technology--Abstracting and indexing, Information scientists--Biography, Humanities--Abstracting and indexing
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Oral history interview with Elizabeth Dyer
- 1986-Oct-13
…library in Haverhill too. SKOLNIK: Did you ever read any of the philosophers by the time you were in high school? DYER: No. SKOLNIK: You never …but I started it as a freshman. I took general chemistry with Louisa Stone Stevenson, whom you have never heard of. She was a marvelous teacher … 30, 33 Skinner, Glenn S., 17 Spurlin, Harold, 19 Stevenson, Louisa Stone, 9 Sturtevant, Julian, 15 Styrene, 18-20, 23 Sun Oil Company, 14, …
- Interviewee Dyer, Elizabeth, 1906-1995
- Interviewer Skolnik, Herman
- Subject Women in science, Dyer, Elizabeth, 1906-1995, Chemistry, Polymers, University of Delaware, Women chemists, Chemists
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Oral history interview with O. Theodor Benfey
- 1991-May-24
- 1991-Jun-05
…diamond crystallography studies and other work she was doing on kidney stones. She was a Quaker also, and I knew this, and people probably knew of …Earlham, I just called it History of Science, one reason being that a philosopher, Grimsley Hobbs, also from Guilford, was teaching a philosophy of …place. It was the building for a steam engine to run massive wheels like stone mill wheels to crush ore to break out gold. North Carolina was the …
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Oral history interview with Athan Kuliopulos
- 2002-Dec-02 – 2002-Dec-04
…not Daniel— No, that’s someone else. KULIOPULOS: He’s a famous philosopher. I’m not a philosopher, but I have seen his name once in a while …confusing things. Maybe that was Kant’s, but he was a Kantian kind of philosopher. My sister was heavily involved in philosophy for …little sick of it, but I still like having a yard. I built a stone driveway this summer. That’s something I did. Right. I bought, a bunch…
- 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 Robert C. De Lisle
- 2000-Apr-10 – 2000-Apr-12
… regurgitate their theories--"This is philosophy. This is how us philosophers look at the world"--and if you did anything creative on your own …grow up in. It was also kind of out in the wild--there were woods and stone quarries all around--so it was a lot more interesting than a suburb…
- Interviewee De Lisle, Robert C., 1957-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Cytologists, Cytology--Research, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Medicine, Gastroenterology, De Lisle, Robert C., 1957-
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Oral history interview with David E. Fisher
- 2001-Jun-06 – 2001-Jun-08
… lawyer, and I suppose there wasn’t much money to be made being a philosopher, which was probably pretty devastating. I think he became— He learned … how to reach me. The clinic itself and the hospital are literally a stone throw’s away. COHEN: Steps away. FISHER: Yeah, so it’s very…
- Interviewee Fisher, David E. (David Erich)
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Fisher, David E. (David Erich), Molecular biology, Oncology, T cells, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Immunology, Orthodox Judaism, Medical scientists