Scientist and professor of microbial chemistry at Berkeley
By: Horace A. Barker ; with an introduction by Clinton E. Ballou. Interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Spath, Susan Barbara.; Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2001
Subjects: Niel, Cornelis Bernardus van, 1897-1986.; Ruben, Samuel.; Kamen, Martin David, 1913-; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.; Lawrence, John Hundale, 1904-; Stanley, Wendell M. 1904-; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Biochemistry.; California Agricultural Experiment Station.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Bacteriology; Technische Universiteit Delft. Laboratory of Microbiology.; Biochemists -- California -- Interviews.; Vitamin B12 -- Research.; Microbiological chemistry -- Research.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Stanford University, thesis in chemistry, interest in botany; work with Cornelius van Niel, Hopkins Marine Station; fellow, Microbiology Laboratory, Polytechnical School, Delft, Holland; Berkeley, 1936-75: soil microbiologist, Agriculture Experiment Station, 1936-50; Dept. of Biochemistry, 1950-75: discusses program in Comparative Biochemistry, Dept. of Bacteriology, Virus Laboratory; research: photosynthetic bacteria, enzymatic synthesis of sucrose, B12 coenzyme, use of radioactive tracers from Berkeley cyclotron, patent on B12 process; comments on scientists: C.B. van Niel, A.J. Kluyver, Sam Ruben, Martin Kamen, Ernest and John Lawrence, Wendell Stanley, and others.

copy of a graduate student paper by Susan Spath titled "From menacing microbes to microorganisms as model systems: the enrichment of American science by the Delft School of Microbiology," 1989.