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[Oral History Program interview with Howard M. Temin, 1993]
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Background -- New biology -- Recruitment and hiring -- Cal Tech -- McArdle Laboratory in 1960s -- Virology and cancer -- Teaching method -- Work on role of viruses in cancer -- Choice of problems -...
Background -- New biology -- Recruitment and hiring -- Cal Tech -- McArdle Laboratory in 1960s -- Virology and cancer -- Teaching method -- Work on role of viruses in cancer -- Choice of problems -- Women and minorities at McArdle -- Independent work -- Work with post-doctoral and graduate students -- Seminars -- Maintenance of small laboratory -- Relationship between choice of problems and funding -- Rejection of his ideas in 1960s -- Nobel Prize ceremonies in Sweden -- Effects of Nobel Prize -- Decline of biology at UW -- Current research -- Retrovirus variation and its relation to understanding and developing AIDS vaccine -- Constructing viruses -- His most important scientific accomplishments: provirus hypothesis, reverse transcriptase, and determination of relationships among proviruses -- His model of "doing science" -- Establishment of virology and tumor virology program project grants and seminars -- Independent scientific research -- Interaction in community of independent scientists -- Harold Rusch -- Family -- Influence of scientific community's interest in choice of problems -- Competition and funding in science -- Harold Varmus -- Outside activities: editorial boards, National Institute of Health committees, and AIDS-related National Academy of Sciences activities -- Rusch professorship -- Importance of retrovirology.
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- English
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- audiocassettes (3 1/2 hrs.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, monophonic
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- ocn228030779
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- Interviewed in 1993 by Margaret Andreasen and Barry Teicher
- Professor of Oncology; at UW: 1960-94.
- Background -- New biology -- Recruitment and hiring -- Cal Tech -- McArdle Laboratory in 1960s -- Virology and cancer -- Teaching method -- Work on role of viruses in cancer -- Choice of problems -- Women and minorities at McArdle -- Independent work -- Work with post-doctoral and graduate students -- Seminars -- Maintenance of small laboratory -- Relationship between choice of problems and funding -- Rejection of his ideas in 1960s -- Nobel Prize ceremonies in Sweden -- Effects of Nobel Prize -- Decline of biology at UW -- Current research -- Retrovirus variation and its relation to understanding and developing AIDS vaccine -- Constructing viruses -- His most important scientific accomplishments: provirus hypothesis, reverse transcriptase, and determination of relationships among proviruses -- His model of "doing science" -- Establishment of virology and tumor virology program project grants and seminars -- Independent scientific research -- Interaction in community of independent scientists -- Harold Rusch -- Family -- Influence of scientific community's interest in choice of problems -- Competition and funding in science -- Harold Varmus -- Outside activities: editorial boards, National Institute of Health committees, and AIDS-related National Academy of Sciences activities -- Rusch professorship -- Importance of retrovirology