Interviews conducted by Jack S. Cohen and Franklin H. Portugal for book, A Century of DNA, 1972-1974.

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Interviews conducted by Jack S. Cohen and Franklin H. Portugal for book, A Century of DNA, 1972-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79662084

Audio recordings, transcripts, and manuscripts. Interviews with nine scientists (six transcribed) conducted by Cohen and Portugal for their book A CENTURY OF DNA: A HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE GENETIC SUBSTANCE (MIT Press, 1977). They sought to document the course of research which elucidated the chemical structure and biological function of DNA from its discovery in 1869 to the analysis of the genetic code in the early 1960s. Also contains manuscripts of some of the chapters. The longest interviews are with: Aaron Bendich, Erwin Chargaff, Melvin Cohn, Sven Furberg, Rollin Hotchkiss, Robert William Holley, Robert Stuart Tipson, Lord Alexander Roberts Todd, and Maurice Wilkins.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Tipson, R. Stuart

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Cohen, Jack S. (Jack Sidney), 1938-

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Chemist (physical biochemistry). On staff of Merck Institute, 1967-1969; Physical Sciences Laboratory and Division of Computer Research and Technology, 1969-1973; and senior investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health from 1973. From the description of Interviews conducted by Jack S. Cohen and Franklin H. Portugal for book, A Century of DNA, 1972-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79662084 ...

Cohn, Melvin.

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Portugal, Franklin H.

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Holley, Robert W.

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Cornell University Professor of Biochemistry, Nobel Prize winner in 1968. From the description of Robert Holley papers, 1942-1989, 2009. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63881932 ...

Chargaff, Erwin

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Erwin Chargaff is a biochemist who discovered the base-pairing regularities or "complementarity relationships" in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). He also disproved the tetranucleotide hypothesis; demonstrated the existence of a large number of different DNA species; and created the first descriptions of hypochromicity, hyperchromicity, and the denaturation of a DNA. In addition, he did research on blood coagulation, lipids and lipoproteins, metabolism of amino acids and inositol, and biosynthesis o...

Hotchkiss, Rollin D.

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Todd, Alexander R. (Alexander Robertus), 1907-

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Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004

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Frederick Wilkins was born in 1916 in Dallas. He attended Southern Methodist University where he majored in history. After college he spent twenty-five years in the Army as a public relations officer. Wilkins was married to Frances Semaan who had a career in Oriental carpet and art objects. The couple shared an interest in Near Eastern and Islamic art, amassing a large collection through their travels. This 300-plus-piece collection was donated to the San Antonio Museum ...

Bendich, Aaron

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