Moore, Peter (Chemistry Dept, Yale)

Scope and Contents Joan Steitz, molecular biologist and professor, is interviewed by Mila Pollock and Danielle Kovacs on March 21, 2001, at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.Joan Steitz speaks about her long relationship with Jim Watson, from the time she met him as an undergraduate, later as his first woman graduate student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept. at Harvard, and being mentored by him while working in his lab there. She describes Watson as a professor and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted with 200 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences between 1990 and 2018. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology, such as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others, from the 1940s through the 2000s. The collection contains audio and video recordings, as well as transcripts of interviews....