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The Calvin Lab : oral history transcript: bio-organic chemistry group at the University of California, Berkeley, 1945-1963 / 2000Creator/Contributor:
Moses, Vivian, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Moses, Sheila, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Abraham, E. P. (Edward Penley), 1913-1999, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Alberti, Marie, 1937-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Aronoff, Sam, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Barker, Sydney Alan, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bassham, James Alan, 1922-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bennett, Edward L., 1921-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Benson, Andrew A. (Andrew Alm), 1917-2015, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Blass, Ulrich, 1924-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Buchanan, Bob B., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Buchanan, J. Grant, 1926-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Calvin, Melvin, 1911-1997, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Dorough, Gus Downs, 1922-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Frey, H. Montague, 1929-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Fuller, R. Clinton, 1925-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Gibbs, Martin, 1922-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Goldsby, Richard A., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Goodman, Murray, 1928-2004, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Grisebach, Carol, 1919-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Holm-Hansen, O. (Osmund), interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Ann M., 1917-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Kamen, Martin David, 1913-2002, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Kandler, Otto, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Kay, Lorel, 1926-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Kornberg, H. L., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lauber, Alice, 1927-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lemmon, Richard Millington, 1919-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Louwrier, K., 1933-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Massini, Peter, 1921-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Mayaudon, Jacques, 1924-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Meier, Richard L., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Metzner, Helmut, 1925-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Milhaud, Gérard, 1922-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Moses, Vivian, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Park, Roderic B., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Phipps, Anthone, 1898-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Pon, Ning Gin, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Prins, Petronella Y. F., 1930-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Quayle, J. R., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Rabin, B. R. (Brian Robert), 1927-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Rabson, Robert, 1926-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Rapoport, Henry, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Shaw, Duncan F., 1931-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Simon, Helmut, 1927-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Stange, Luise M. C., 1926-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Stepka, William, 1917-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Taylor, M. Marilyn, 1924-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Thain, E. Malcolm, 1925-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Tolbert, Anne G., 1930-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Tolbert, Bert M., 1921-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Tolbert, N. E. (N. Edward), 1919-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Tyszkiewicz, Edwige, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Sumere, C. F. van, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Whatley, F. R., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Wilkinson, Lise, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Wilson, A. T. (Alexander Thomas), 1930-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Yankwich, Peter E., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Graduate students, postdocs, staff and observers of the Melvin Calvin bio-organic chemistry group at UC Berkeley from 1945-1963
are interviewed on the methods, management, community and culture of the Calvin lab; the Donner Laboratory-based group's work
on organic reaction mechanisms and radioactive synthesis; work on photosynthesis in the Old Radiation Laboratory (ORL); years
after 1959 in the Life Sciences Building, and the move to the Round House (Melvin Calvin Laboratory; recollections of Sam
Ruben, Martin Kamen, UC Radiation Laboratory, E.O. and John Lawrence.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caBioorganic chemistry
Organic reaction mechanisms
Photosynthesis -- Research
Chimie bio-organique
Réactions organiques (Chimie) -- Mécanismes
Photosynthesis -- Research
Organic reaction mechanisms
Bioorganic chemistry
Calvin Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.)
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Biochemistry.
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando -- 1901-1958
Lawrence, John H. (John Hundale) -- 1904-1991
Ruben, Samuel
Kamen, Martin David -- 1913-2002
Ruben, Samuel -- 1900-1988
Lawrence, John H. (John Hundale) -- 1904-1991
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando -- 1901-1958
Kamen, Martin David -- 1913-2002
Note:
interviews conducted by Vivian and Sheila Moses, December 1995-September 1997. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3218 C:1-60.
Also available online.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
2 volumes : portraits ; 29 cm
60 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0v9k
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0w04
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only.