Kovacs, Danielle

Scope and Contents H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel prize winning biologist, is interviewed by Mila Pollock and Danielle Kovacs, on March 9, 2001, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.H. Robert Horvitz discusses the following in his interview: Scene 1. Becoming a scientist -- Scene 2. Jim Watson: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Harvard University -- Scene 3. Jim Watson's Harvard Laboratory -- Scene 4. Jim Watson: professor -- Scene 5. The Harvard years: Horvitz's graduate research -- Scene 6. Jim Watson: mentor...

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 Nancy Hopkins recounts the enormous influence Jim Watson had on her choice of career and the path it has taken, his impact as a science educator and mentor to many, and as a friend. Other scientific heroes remembered are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Barbara McClintock. As a leading voice in the field of gender equity issues in science, Hopkins speaks about her experiences as a women scientist, her efforts to institutionalize change surrounding gender equity at MIT, and her observations...