The Calvin Lab
Subtitle: bio-organic chemistry group at the University of California, Berkeley, 1945-1963
By: interviews conducted by Vivian and Sheila Moses, December 1995-September 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Moses, Vivian.; Moses, Sheila.; Abraham, E. P. 1913-; Alberti, Marie, 1937-; Aronoff, Sam.; Barker, Sydney Alan.; Bassham, James Alan, 1922-; Bennett, Edward L., 1921-; Benson, Andrew A., 1917-; Blass, Ulrich, 1924-; Buchanan, Bob B.; Buchanan, J. Grant, 1926-; Calvin, Melvin, 1911-; Dorough, Gus Downs, 1922-; Frey, H. Montague, 1929-; Fuller, R. Clinton, 1925-; Gibbs, Martin, 1922-; Goldsby, Richard A.; Goodman, Murray, 1928-; Grisebach, Carol, 1919-; Holm-Hansen, O.; Hughes, Ann M., 1917-; Kamen, Martin David, 1913-; Kandler, Otto.; Kay, Lorel, 1926-; Kornberg, H. L.; Lauber, Alice, 1927-; Lemmon, Richard Millington, 1919-; Louwrier, K., 1933-; Massini, Peter, 1921-; Mayaudon, Jacques, 1924-; Meier, Richard L.; Metzner, Helmut, 1925-; Milhaud, Gérard, 1922-; Moses, Vivian.; Park, Roderic B.; Phipps, Anthone, 1898-; Pon, Ning Gin.; Prins, Petronella Y. F., 1930-; Quayle, J. R.; Rabin, B. R. 1927-; Rabson, Robert, 1926-; Rapoport, Henry.; Shaw, Duncan F., 1931-; Simon, Helmut, 1927-; Stange, Luise M. C., 1926-; Stepka, William, 1917-; Taylor, M. Marilyn, 1924-; Thain, E. Malcolm, 1925-; Tolbert, Anne G., 1930-; Tolbert, Bert M., 1921-; Tolbert, N. E. 1919-; Tyszkiewicz, Edwige.; Sumere, C. F. van.; Whatley, F. R.; Wilkinson, Lise.; Wilson, Alexander Thomas, 1930-; Yankwich, Peter E.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958; Lawrence, John Hundale, 1904-; Ruben, Samuel; Kamen, Martin David, 1913-; Calvin Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.); Lawrence Radiation Laboratory; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Biochemistry; Bioorganic chemistry; Organic reaction mechanisms; Photosynthesis -- Research
Description: Graduate students, postdocs, staff and observers of the Melvin Calvin bio-organic chemistry group at UC Berkeley from 1945-1963 are interviewed on the methods, management, community and culture of the Calvin lab; the Donner Laboratory-based group's work on organic reaction mechanisms and radioactive synthesis; work on photosynthesis in the Old Radiation Laboratory (ORL); years after 1959 in the Life Sciences Building, and the move to the Round House (Melvin Calvin Laboratory; recollections of Sam Ruben, Martin Kamen, UC Radiation Laboratory, E.O. and John Lawrence.