Interviews 261 - 270

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Background and training; Marriage; Arrival in Madison; Personalities and issues in Political Science Department; Experimental College; Her undergraduate coursework; Assisting husband Llewellyn Pfankuchen; First job; La Follettes; League of Women Voters; Home management; Run for State Assembly; McCarthy era.

Position in Department of Biochemistry; Condition of office; E. B. Hart and Conrad Elvehjem as chairmen; Relationships between Department faculty; Kindness of faculty members; Acquisition of first electric typewriter on campus; Graduate students; Responsibilities; Position of women on UW staff.

263.   IHDE, Aaron J.  (1909-2000 )
Undergraduate and Graduate Student; Professor of Chemistry, History of Science, and Integrated Liberal Studies
At UW: 1927-1931; 1938-1980

Experiences in fraternity house; Experimental College; Rowing team; Job at a dairy company; Decision to earn Ph.D.; Harry Steenbock; Quality of teaching in the Chemistry and Biochemistry departments; Farrington Daniels; John Williams; Emphasis on research in the Chemistry department; Growing interest in the history of science; Creation of the Department of History of Science; Creation of the Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS) program; Enthusiasm of original ILS faculty; Courses; Quality of teaching; Students; Effects of Ford Foundation early entry students on ILS; Teaching assistants; Robert Pooley's success as chairman; Student newspaper; ILS students' involvement in protest movement and effect on ILS; Physical universe course; Joseph Mathews; Teaching assistantship strike; Decline of ILS; AI's wife.

Work at Blue Valley Creamery Company in Chicago; Otto Hunziger; Henry Schuette; Chemistry department's involvement in the war effort; Farrington Daniels; Karl Paul Link; Controversy over Rachel Carson and Silent Spring; Harry Steenbock; E.B. Hart; National figures in the history of chemistry.

264.   LARDY, Henry A.  (1917- )
Graduate Student, Biochemistry; Professor of Biochemistry; Co-Director of Enzyme Institute
At UW: 1939-1988

Undergraduate work at South Dakota State; Reasons for coming to UW; Work under Paul Phillips in artificial insemination; Biochemistry faculty as teachers; Karl Paul Link's laboratory; Fellow graduate students; Relationships among faculty; Calf-scours issue; His laboratory and research; Appointment as co- director of Enzyme Institute; Changes in method of training graduate students; Perry Wilson's course in writing; Relationships in Institute; Weekly seminars; Funding of Institute; Equipment; Value of national research centers; Running his laboratory; Deterioration in equipment; Computer use; Issues in funding life sciences; Enzyme Institute Committee.

265.   CAMPBELL, Harold A.  (1909-96 )
Graduate Student, Biochemistry; Senior Scientist, McArdle Laboratory
At UW: 1935-1939; 1969-1995

Interviewed: 1983	Length: 2.5 hours
Series: Life Sciences Interviewer: Laura Smail

Background; Graduate work under Karl Paul Link; Friday teas for laboratory group; Discoveries of niacin and dicumarol; Developments in Link's laboratory; Issues about attributing credit for research results; His work at McArdle Laboratory.

Howard Beale; His relationships with graduate students and other History Department faculty; His influence on students.

Enzyme Institute; Building; Financing Institute; David Green; Institute seminars; Henry Lardy's appointment as co-director; Post-doctoral students at Institute; Work with Medical School departments; Research; Appointment of Har Gobind Khorana; Other faculty; Events of McCarthy era involving scientists; Issues of support for research involving Medical School; Funding priority for molecular biology in 1960s.

268.   MILLER, Linda E.  (1960- )
Undergraduate Student
At UW: 1979-1983

Interviewed: 1983	Length: 1.5 hours
Interviewer: Laura Smail

Background; Reasons for coming to UW; Courses; Involvement in organizations; Course of study; Professors; Post-graduation plans; TA Strike of 1980; Leisure activities.

Background; Work under Perry Wilson; Research funding during Depression; Faculty in departments of Bacteriology and Biochemistry as teachers and researchers; Fellow graduate students; Discovery of niacin; Research on penicillin; Appointment to Biochemistry Department; Year at Columbia; Medical School issues; Introduction of radioactive isotopes at UW; Acquisition of mass spectrometer; Research funding; Research on potato chips; NAS Board; Enzyme Institute; Har Gobind Khorana; Chairmen of Biochemistry Department; Origins of Nutritional Sciences Department; Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Harry Steenbock as person and as laboratory teacher; Selection of students; Contrast between Biochemistry Department in 1930s and now; Research at Enzyme Institute; History of Molecular Biology Department; Importance of keeping abreast of developments in field; Biochemistry Department's record; Research on radioactive vitamins.

Note: See also interview with Howard Bremer, #559.

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