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Scientist and professor of microbial chemistry at Berkeley : oral history transcript / 2001.
BANC MSS 2002/71 c; Phonotape 3317 C:1-4; BANC MSS 2002/71 c suppl.; BANC MSS 2002/71 c
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Title:
Scientist and professor of microbial chemistry at Berkeley : oral history transcript / 2001Creator/Contributor:
Barker, H. A. (Horace Albert), 1907-2000, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and BiotechnologyCreator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Stanford University, thesis in chemistry, interest in botany; work with Cornelius van Niel, Hopkins Marine Station; fellow,
Microbiology Laboratory, Polytechnical School, Delft, Holland; Berkeley, 1936-75: soil microbiologist, Agriculture Experiment
Station, 1936-50; Dept. of Biochemistry, 1950-75: discusses program in Comparative Biochemistry, Dept. of Bacteriology, Virus
Laboratory; research: photosynthetic bacteria, enzymatic synthesis of sucrose, B12 coenzyme, use of radioactive tracers from
Berkeley cyclotron, patent on B12 process; comments on scientists: C.B. van Niel, A.J. Kluyver, Sam Ruben, Martin Kamen, Ernest
and John Lawrence, Wendell Stanley, and others.
Date:
2001 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caNiel, Cornelis Bernardus van -- 1897-1985
Ruben, Samuel
Kamen, Martin David -- 1913-2002
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando -- 1901-1958
Lawrence, John Hundale -- 1904-
Stanley, Wendell M. (Wendell Meredith) -- 1904-1971
University of California, Berkeley. -- Dept. of Biochemistry.
California Agricultural Experiment Station.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Dept. of Bacteriology.
Biochemists -- California -- Interviews
Vitamin B12 -- Research
Microbiological chemistry -- Research
Note:
Horace A. Barker ; with an introduction by Clinton E. Ballou. Interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1998 and 1999.
Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Part of the Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3317 C:1-4.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xix, 118 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
4 sound cassettes.
1 portfolio.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z159q
BANC MSS 2002/71 c
Phonotape 3317 C:1-4
BANC MSS 2002/71 c suppl.
BANC MSS 2002/71 c
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.