Reminiscences of Joseph F. Ross, 1986.

Biographical Note

Hematologist

Scope and Contents

Childhood, Azusa, CA; education: Stanford University 1929-1932, Harvard Medical School 1932-1936; clinical training; early uses of radioactivity in laboratory experiments, diagnosis, therapy; development of penicillin and blood preservation, World War II; Boston University Medical School: reorganization under Chester Keefer; development of hematology as a specialty: founding of Blood: The Journal of Hematology, 1945, the International Society of Hematology 1946, the Blood Club 1954, the American Society of Hematology 1956; development of nuclear medicine; medical representative, Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace Program, 1956 and Geneva Conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy, 1955; international science missions; academic career at University of California at Los Angeles, departments of radiology, nuclear medicine, hematology, from 1954

Subjects

• American Society of Hematology.
• Boston University. School of Medicine.
• Clinical medicine.
• Hematology.
• Hoffman, Eric A., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Medical research personnel--Interviews.
• Nuclear medicine.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Radioactivity--Physiological effect.
• Ross, Joseph F. (Joseph Foster), 1910-1999--Interviews.
• Science--International cooperation.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• University of California, Los Angeles.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987