Women in Science
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Merilyn Sleigh, 2003-01-17
Item — Box AV08, Hi8: CSHL1304
Scope and Contents
Merilyn Sleigh, molecular biologist and biotechnology entrepreneur, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on January 17, 2003, at EvoGenix Limited, in Sydney, Australia.Merilyn Sleigh discusses the following in her interview:
Scene 1. Coming to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 2. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Science-- Scene 3. Great research moment: Discovering RNA splicing -- Scene 4. Great research moment: SV40 cancer research -- Scene 5. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: science...
Dates:
2003-01-17
Nancy Hopkins, 2001-04-09
Item — Box AV06, Hi8: CSHL1259
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...
Dates:
2001-04-09
Nicoletta Sacchi, 2004-06-08
Item — Box AV03, miniDV: CSHL1142
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....
Dates:
2004-06-08
Paul Doty, 2003-07-22
Item — Box AV05, Hi8: CSHL1239
Scope and Contents
Paul Doty reflects on his career in science as well as his second career in politics. He talks about the influences of and relationships he maintained with scientists Max Delbrück, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Peter Kapitza, Matt Meselson, and Tom Maniatis, as well as the development of the Department of Molecular Biololgy at Harvard. His professional and personal relationship with Jim Watson is discussed in detail, including Doty's observations of the different periods in Watson's...
Dates:
2003-07-22
Robert Martienssen, 2001-02-20
Item — Box AV07, Hi8: CSHL1279
Scope and Contents
Robert Martienssen, plant molecular geneticist and professor, is interviewed by Mila Pollock and Ramah McKay on February 20, 2001, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.Robert Martienssen discusses the following in his interview:
Scene 1. Meeting Barbara McClintock -- Scene 2. Barbara McClintock's "controlling elements" -- Scene 3. Barbara McClintock personality -- Scene 4. Barbara McClintock as a mentor -- Scene 5. Barbara McClintock as a pioner in...
Dates:
2001-02-20
Suzanne Cory, 2003-01-15
Item — Box AV05, Hi8: CSHL1215
Scope and Contents
Suzanne Cory, biochemist and molecular oncologist, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on January 15, 2003, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia.
Suzanne Cory discusses the following in her interview:
Scene 1. Becoming a scientist -- Scene 2. Influence of Watson and Crick -- Scene 3. Adams-Capecchi PNAS Paper -- Scene 4. Coming to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and meeting Jim Watson -- Scene 5. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 6. Cold Spring...
Dates:
2003-01-15
Sydney Brenner, 2002-06-10
Item — Box AV05, Hi8: CSHL1222
Scope and Contents
Sydney Brenner talks about women in science and many of the past directors of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Sydney Brenner discusses the following in his interview:
LIFE IN SCIENCE:
Women in Science: Admitting Women to Cambridge University,
Women in Science: American Sensitivity to Gender Equity,JAMES D. WATSON:
Jim Watson, “Lucky Jim”,
Alfred Hershey,
Jim Watson,
John Cairns and Joe Sambrook,
Milislav Demerec,
Jim Watson - Discovering the...
Dates:
2002-06-10
Waclaw Szybalski, 2001-05-11
Item — Box AV08, Hi8: CSHL1311
Scope and Contents
Waclaw Szybalski, an authority on molecular biology, genetics and microbiology, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on May 11, 2001, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.Scene 1. Studying science in Poland during World War II -- Scene 2. Coming to America and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 3. Scientific work: multiple drug therapy -- Scene 4. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: social life -- Scene 5. Milislave Demerec -- Scene 6. Directors at Cold...
Dates:
2001-05-11