Reminiscences of Rene Jules Dubos : oral history, 1957.

Biographical Note

Bacteriologist.

Scope and Contents

Part I: Development of his work in bacteriology to 1943, and, more particularly, his thinking about his work; childhood and early training; polysaccharide of pneumococcus; Oswald T. Avery; tyrocidine, streptomycin and gramicidin; Harvard University and the war years. Part II: Development of his work in bacteriology since 1945; and in particular his concern with the physiological, biochemical, and metabolic aspects of tuberculosis research; writing of LOUIS PASTEUR, THE WHITE PLAGUE, THE BIOCHEMICAL DETERMINANTS OF DISEASE, and BACTERIAL AND MYCOTIC INFECTIONS IN MAN; scientific papers; Rockefeller Institute.

Subjects

• Antibacterial agents.
• Antibiotics.
• Authors--Interviews.
• Bacteriologists--Interviews.
• Bacteriology.
• Benison, Saul, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Dubos, René J. (René Jules), 1901-1982.
• Harvard University.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Rockefeller Institute.
• Tuberculosis.