Reminiscences of Leslie Clarence Dunn, 1960.

Biographical Note

Geneticist

Scope and Contents

Training in the biological sciences in the United States from 1905; history of genetics in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia ; developmental genetics, interdisciplinary symposia, "Growth Symposia"; influence of genetics on pathological and biochemical researches; impressions of Soviet science and scientists: trip to Russia, 1927, Genetics Congress meeting at Columbia, 1932; plant breeding in Russia ; demise of Gorki Institute of Medico-Genetics and of some Soviet scientists during 1938 crisis; Lysenko school versus the Mendelist-Morganist-Weissmanist school; American-Soviet Science Society; scientific debates in Russia, 1936, 1938-1939, 1948. The Jackson Laboratory; experimental studies of wild mice; cytogenetics; population genetics and evolution; work in population genetics in Sweden; Institute for the Study of Human Variation; genetics studies in Japan; bacterial genetics; Nevis Biological Station; radiation and genetics; scientists and government; Columbia's Department of Zoology; chronological summary of developments in genetics. Impressions of William Castle, Thomas H. Morgan, William Bateson, Richard Goldschmidt, Alexander Serebrovskii, Nikolai Vavilov, Theodosius Dobzhansky, H.J. Muller, Trofim Lysenko, and others

Subjects

• Benison, Saul, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Columbia University.
• Dunn, L. C. (Leslie Clarence), 1893-1974--Interviews.
• Geneticists--Interviews.
• Genetics--Research.
• Genetics.
• Human genetics.
• Interviews.
• Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Plant genetics.
• Population genetics.
• Science and state--Soviet Union.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980