Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with William Layton, Jr., 1997.
Creator: | Layton, William | Project: | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 87 pages Sound recording 3 audiocassettes | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NotePathologist.
Scope and ContentsChildhood: Mansfield, Ohio; early scientific interests; autopsy assistant, B.S., Harvard College, 1943, biochemistry study; Case Western Reserve Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1943-1946; Army service: Fort Sam Houston Medical Field School, San Antonio, Texas; Fort Knox, Hardin, Kentucky, cold weather physiology research, 1946-1948; Fort Churchill, Artic Circle; Stamford Hospital, Connecticut, pathology residency; American Optical consultant; American Cyanamid Company pathologist: Lederle division, steroid research; isopod chromosomal research; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO): biology department consultant; LDEO Children’s Science Program, 1960s, Rockland Foundation funding; colleague reminiscences.
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1998
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