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 o f 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
Medical research personnel; Physicians; Hematology; Clinical medicine; Radioactivity--Physiological effect; Nuclear medicine; Science--International cooperation; United States Foreign relations 1953-1961; Ross, Joseph F. (Joseph Foster), 1910-1999; Boston University. School of Medicine; University of California, Los Angeles; American Society of Hematology
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1986
Note (Biographical)
Hematologist
Note
Interviewed by Eric A. Hoffman on June 11 and 12, 1986