Pioneer of diagnostic virology with the California Department of Public Health
By: with introductions by Harald N. Johnson, M.D. and David A. Lennette ; interview conducted by Sally Smith Hughes ; The Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,
Contributors: Johnson, Harald Norlin, 1907-; Lennette, David Alan, 1945-; Hughes, Sally Smith.; California. Dept. of Public Health.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1988
Subjects: Diagnostic virology.; Public health -- California.; Medicine -- Research -- United States.
Description: Discusses his family and childhood; medical and doctoral education; University of Chicago, 1927-36, Washington University School of Medicine, 1938-39; International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation Laboratories at the California Department of Public Health, 1944-46; director, Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, California Department of Public Health, 1947-78; professional associations; public health research findings; laboratory relations with state and federal governments; Q fever, polio, atypical pneumonia, yellow fever, influenza, cancer virus, rubella, encephalitis research.